Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario
1628
- Medium
- panel
- Dimensions
- 70.5 × 80.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-106908
Appearances can be deceptive – certainly in painting, which gives only an impression of reality. Here Claesz presents the study materials of an educated painter: books, drawings, armour, musical instruments and a plaster cast of the Spinario, a famous antique sculpture of a boy extracting a thorn from his foot. On the table are a paintbrush and a palette, along with bones and a skull. The message is clear: the world is mere illusion and transience (vanitas).
Registry history
- 1628 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum
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