Vanitas Still Life
c. 1665/1670
Painter, Flemish, 1626 - 1679

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on copper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.3 x 15.2 cm (8 x 6 in.)
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Accession
1995.74.2
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Adelson Gallery, Boston); purchased 1968 by Maida and George Abrams, Newton, Massachusetts; gift 1995 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Dutch Cabinet Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996, no cat.
1998
A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 30, fig. 24.
1999
From Botany to Bouquets: Flowers in Northern Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999, no. 20, fig. 56.
Bibliography
2005
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 123-125, color repro.
2020
Libby, Alexandra. “From Personal Treasures to Public Gifts: The Flemish Painting Collection at the National Gallery of Art.” In America and the Art of Flanders: Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and their Circles, edited by Esmée Quodbach. The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America 5. University Park, 2020: 140.
Inscriptions
lower center on edge of table: I.V.K.
Wikidata ID
Q20177608