# Vanitas Still-Life

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VERMEULEN, Jan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vermeulen-jan-rfb009d0d19dc92>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on panel, 73 x 58 cm

## Commentary

The present vanitas still-life includes a skull with an ivy wreath, a crown, money bags, an hourglass and a book of sheet music, pearls and other objects on a stone plinth. Inscriptions on two sheets of paper can be read: MORS / OMNIA / VINCIT \(Death Conquers All\); and VANITAS / VANITATUM / ET OMNIA / VANITAS \(Ecclesiastes 1:2, Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity\). This elaborately detailed painting is the only known dated still-life in the artist&#39;s oeuvre: it is dated 1654 on the sheet music, lower right.

## Related artworks

- [Vanitas Still-Life with a Lobed Table](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vermeulen-jan-rfb009d0d19dc92/vanitas-still-life-with-a-lobed-table-rc4b8fbf0484118>)

## Attribution

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