Putto Vanitas
after Jan Sanders van Hemessen (Hemiksem c. 1500 - Haarlem 1566)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
558 x 712 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1298330
Summary
Oil on panel, Putto Vanitas, after Jan van Hemessen (Hemiksem c. 1500 - probably Antwerp 1556-7), 16th century. A vanitas image, showing an infant reclined with his head resting on a skull and proper right hand to his forehead. In his proper left hand he holds a staff inscribed with a vanitas emblem reading ‘NASCENDO MORIMUR’ (‘As we are born, so we die’). Against a dark background with green drapery and window. A similar picture was with Christie’s, London, 9 December 2022 (lot 115). Another, with a landscape background through window, is ascribed to Maarten van Heemskerk, a contemporary Romanist painter (Mittlerhine Museum, Koblenz).
Provenance
Bequeathed by Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874 - 1958) to the National Trust with the house, gardens and contents of Tatton Park
Makers and roles
after Jan Sanders van Hemessen (Hemiksem c. 1500 - Haarlem 1566), artist Flemish School, artist previously catalogued as after Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452 - Amboise 1519), artist