Vanitas Still Life Artist: Jacques de Gheyn II (Dutch, 1565–1629)

1621

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

46 1/4 × 65 1/8 in. (117.5 × 165.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts

Accession Number

1957.36

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Sir John Charles Robinson (1824–1913), London, 1911; sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, March 31, 1914, lot 25. Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1922. Klein collection, New York, by 1955; French and Company (dealer), New York, 1957; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1957
Bibliography
  • Susanna Koenig, Pieter Claesz: Master of Still Life in the Golden Age (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2004),
  • Alan Chong, Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550–1720, exh. cat. (Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Publishers, 1999), pp. 11, 16, fig. fig. 8
  • I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, vol. 2 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1983), pp. 15–16, plate 23
  • B. A. Heezen-Stoll, ""Een vanitasstileven van Jacques de Gheyn II uit 1621: afspiegeling van neostoische denkbeelden"," Oud Holland 4 (1979), pp.220–221, fig. fig. 3
  • Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 17, ill
  • David Oliver Merrill, "The 'Vanitas' of Jacques de Gheyn," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 25, no. 3 (March 1960), pp. 7–29
  • W. R. Valentiner, ""A Still-Life by Jacques de Gheyn"," The Art Quarterly Vol. XVIII (Summer 1955), 158–163
  • Carel van Mander, Dutch and Flemish Painters (New York: McFarlane, 1936), pp. 403, 505 note 7
  • Gemälde des XIV, Bis XVIII Jahrhunderts: Sammlungen des Sir J. C. Robinson und dessen verstorbene sohnes Chrels Newton Robinson, London (Berlin: Rudolph Lepke, 1914), p. 7, pl. 14, no. Lot #25
  • P. G. Konody, ""Rembrandt's Earliest Picture?"," The Illustrated London News 138 (1911), 92–93
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

still lifes

Subject

books skull

Inscriptions

[LC] "Servare modum, finemque tueri, naturamque sequi" [Observe moderation, be mindful of one's end, and follow nature]\r\n

Signed

[LC] "IDGHEYN 1621"

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