# Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull and an Écorché [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HEEM, Cornelis de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 60 x 78 cm ## Commentary Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull and an Écorché c. 1659 Oil on canvas, 60 x 78 cm Private collection In this still-life there are many overt references to the theme of vanitas. The painting is packed with reminders of the brevity and fragility of human life and existence, most of them obvious in their meaning, like the écorché figure, the skull, the burning length of rope and the stopped pocket watch. ## Related artworks - [Festoon with Fruit and Flowers]() - [Flower Still-Life]() - [Still-Life of Fruit]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit \(detail\)]() - [Still-Life with Flowers and Fruit]() - [Still-Life with Flowers]() - [Still-Life with Oysters, Lemons and Grapes]() - [Vanitas Still-Life with Musical Instruments]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()