Death with Worldly Vanities

1700/1720

French 18th Century

Artist

Pierre Gallays

Publisher, French, c. 1677 - 1749

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 66.99 × 47.63 cm (26 3/8 × 18 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 75.25 × 55.25 cm (29 5/8 × 21 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.44.16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Le Mépris des Vanites du Monde / AParis chez P. Gallays rue St Jacques a St Francois de Sates

Wikidata ID

Q77008355

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