Still Life with a Skull and a Vase of Roses

1645/1650

Jean Morin

Artist, French, c. 1600 - 1650

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David and Elizabeth Tunick

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    2005.46.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mazel 2004, no. 40, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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.

Wikidata ID

Q76345588

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