Title

Vanitas Allegory, mid-17th century. Creator: Willem de Poorter.

Caption

Vanitas Allegory, mid-17th century. A woman at her dressing table flinches at a skeleton holding up a mirror to her - a reminder of mortality. By contrast, the ostentatious still life of precious silverware, jewels, pieces of armour, and musical instruments alludes to worldly wealth. The vaulted chamber with its chiaroscuro lighting, the richness of detail and precise brush technique are typical of artists in the orbit of the young Rembrandt.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B07_359

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

55,4Mb (2,5Mb) / 13,0in x 16,5in / 3904 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe female women woman people interior painting warning metal Sweden Swedish museum Netherlands Dutch color silver death gold jewellery jewelry chain century riches gesturing inside treasure mirror skeleton jug shock furniture gold chain concept shocked tableware vanity mortality silverware hand gesture 17th century dressing Table Colour allegory looking glass Indoors allegorical allegorical figure seventeenth century artistic school dressingtable TGN Allegory vanitas Stockholm National Museum Painting Heritage Art oil on panel dressing-table Low Countries Willem de Poorter Poorter Willem de National Museum Sweden Nationalmuseum Sweden allegory?