A Vanitas with a Model of the Farnese Hercules
manner of Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraeten (Haarlem c.1630 – London 1700)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1700
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
172 x 127 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401319
Summary
Oil painting on copper, A Vanitas with a Model of the Farnese Hercules, manner of Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraeten (Haarlem c.1630 – London 1700). Still life comprising a globe, antique statues, including a copy of the Farnese Hercules a skull, pearls, shells, book and other items suggesting the temporal nature of time and life.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)
Credit line
Felbrigg Hall, The Windham Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraeten (Haarlem c.1630 – London 1700), artist
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 46