Death with Worldly Vanities
1700/1720
French 18th Century
Artist
Publisher, French, c. 1677 - 1749
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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 Number
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