# Memento Mori

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MORIN, Jean](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morin-jean-rbef3d9d80bc114>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Engraving

## Commentary

This engraving represents a Memento Mori still-life engraved by Morin after a lost painting by Philippe de Champaigne. In the middle of the composition is a skull, seen frontally, on the right a vase of roses with one petal fallen, on the left a watch — the perfectly classical still-life, as impressive in its direct symbolism as those of Zurbaran.

## Related artworks

- [Omer Talon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morin-jean-rbef3d9d80bc114/omer-talon-r183f4517e2b251>)

## Attribution

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