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Heda, Willem Claesz.

Vanitas

Heda, Willem Claesz.

1594 - 1680

Vanitas

Oil on panel: 45.5 x 69.5 cm
Dating: 1621-1628
Objectnumber: 052-1946

Another ‘toebackje’ (see Elinga), quite likely one of the earliest. Also a typical vanitas painting, a calvinist form of ‘memento mori’.

See also Claeuw, Rijckaert and Miense Molenaer for vanitas paintings.

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