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Vanity Piece, ca. 1650

  • oil paint, panel
  • 50 x 38 cm
  • Inv. 1914-DE

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This panel by Hendrick Andriessen entitled Mancken Heyn is a pure example of a vanitas painting. The attributes are arranged in a careful composition in a closed niche, which probably represents the world. An oil lamp, a soap bubble, a skull and the bouquet of flowers refer to how fragile life is, tobacco to the triviality of earthly pleasures. The image of death is not purely negative: the central element in this composition is a rose, which symbolizes the resurrection.

Artist

Hendrick Andriessen RKD
Antwerp 1607 - Zeeland 1655
painters (artists)AAT

Title Vanity Piece
Date ca. 1650
Period 17th century
Location Antwerp TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings monogram bottom left: AHD . fecit
hallmarks
paneelmakersponsoen met monogram
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1914-DE
Acquisition credit bequest
Scribe, Fernand
Ghent
1913
Current whereabouts Work on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-DE
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/663/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015638 still lifes AAT
Keywords Iconclass 11R5 (personifications of) 'Vanitas', the vanity of human life; Fragilita humana, Fugacita delle grandezze della gloria mondana, Meditatione della morte, Opera vana, Piacere vano, Vana gloria, Vanita (Ripa) Iconclass
11R6 'Vanitas' still life Iconclass
11R71 skull as symbol of 'Vanitas' Iconclass
25G(+32) plants; vegetation (+ flowers, blossom, blossoming) Iconclass
25G41(ANEMONE) flowers: anemone Iconclass
25G41(ROSE) flowers: rose Iconclass
31A54611 soap-bubble Iconclass
31F symbols and personifications of Death Iconclass
41A6711 flowers in a vase Iconclass
41B114 match Iconclass
41B34 oil-lamp Iconclass
41C74 tobacco Iconclass
41C741 pipe ~ tobacco Iconclass
41E still life of miscellaneous objects Iconclass
41E1 still life of related objects Iconclass
49L641 paper (writing material) Iconclass
School / Style Baroque AAT
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200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 267 (ill. 31))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 47 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent : The Collection (exhibition opened on March 21th 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Ghent : Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2021
Stillevens door Zeeuwse Meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw (tentoonstelling Zierikzee, Stadhuismuseum, 18.01.2023 - 19.11.2023) / Fred G. Meijer. - Zwolle : W Books, 2023 (p. 36)
onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (cover; p. 62, cat. 72 (ill.))
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