Still Life with a Skull and a Vase of Roses, 1645/1650

Not on View

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut within platemark): 38.1 x 31.3 cm (15 x 12 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David and Elizabeth Tunick

Catalogue Raisonné

Mazel 2004, no. 40, State i/ii

Accession Number

2005.46.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Morin (artist) French, c. 1600 - 1650

Philippe de Champaigne (artist after) French, 1602 - 1674

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Quid terra cinisque superbis. / Hora fugit, marcescit Honor, Mors imminet atra.; lower left in plate: Champaigne Pin.; lower right in plate: Morin scul. Cum Privil Re.

Provenance

(David Tunick, Inc., New York); gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 45.

Bibliography

1967: Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

2004: Mazel, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de Jean Morin. Paris, 2004.