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Edwaert Collier — Vanitas still life with a violin, recorders, music manuscripts, and a globe
Edwaert Collier

Vanitas still life with a violin, recorders, music manuscripts, and a globe

Edwaert Collier presents a classical vanitas still life arrangement featuring a violin, recorders, music manuscripts, and a globe in oil on canvas. The composition combines musical and geographical elements to explore themes of mortality and the transience of worldly pursuits.

Medium
oil on canvas

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Master Paintings

October 14, 2022

Estimate: $30,000$50,000

Lot 25

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Edwaert Collier, Vanitas still life with a violin, recorders, music manuscripts, and a globe

Edwaert Collier presents a classical vanitas still life arrangement featuring a violin, recorders, music manuscripts, and a globe in oil on canvas. The composition combines musical and geographical elements to explore themes of mortality and the transience of worldly pursuits.

Medium
oil on canvas
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Dark, Monochrome, Vanitas, Symbolic, Baroque, Detailed, Flemish, Oil on Canvas, Still Life, Musical Instruments

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