# Vanitas Still-Life [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [COLLIER, Edwart]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on wood, 94 x 112 cm ## Commentary This painting is a fairly conventional, but well-conceived and well-composed, vanitas picture. The tipped over silver tazza and green-glass roemer \(which with the watch recall <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/h/heda/breakfas1.html'\)" href="/html/h/heda/breakfas1.html">still-lifes</a> by Willem Claesz. Heda\). The composition indicates that in his early twenties Collier had already mastered the syntax of a visual language in which earlier masters, including Pieter <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/claesz/vanitas1.html'\)" href="/html/c/claesz/vanitas1.html">Claesz</a> and Jan Davidsz <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/h/heem/jan/1/stillboo.html'\)" href="/html/h/heem/jan/1/stillboo.html">de Heem,</a> had expressed themselves. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Self-Portrait with a Vanitas Still- Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()