Bubble-blowing Girl with a Vanitas Still Life, Adriaen van der Werff (manner of), 1680 - 1775

Title(s)

Bubble-blowing Girl with a Vanitas Still Life

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-2347

Description

Bellenblazend meisje bij een vanitas stilleven bestaande uit boeken, een viool en een schedel .

Artist

• painter: Adriaen van der Werff (manner of)

Dating

1680 - 1775

Material

• copper (metal)
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 15 cm × width 11.5 cm
height 33.2 cm × width 29.5 cm × depth 3 cm

What

• bubble-blowing (children's games and plays)
• (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla' ~ scene symbolizing 'Vanitas'
• skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'
• (personifications of) 'Vanitas', the vanity of human life; Fragilità humana, Fugacità delle grandezze & della gloria mondana, Meditatione della morte, Opera vana, Piacere vano, Vana gloria, Vanità (Ripa)
• violin, fiddle

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 1908

Copyright

Public domain