# Tobacco Pipes and a Brazier [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CLAESZ., Pieter]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 49 c 64 cm ## Commentary Tobacco Pipes and a Brazier 1636 Oil on wood, 49 c 64 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg A jug and glass of wine, a snuffbox, pipes, spills, and coals smoldering in a small brazier - these attributes of the vices of smoking and drunkenness constitute a variant of the 'vanitas,' a still-life reminding the viewer of the transience of earthly life. Claesz. supplements the traditional subgenre with an element that increases the eloquence of the didactic message: the banality of the objects that accompany us on the short journey from birth to death. ## Related artworks - [Breakfast-piece]() - [Still-Life \(detail\)]() - [Still-Life \(detail\)]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() - [Still-Life]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()