# Trompe-l'oeil with Studio Wall and Vanitas Still-Life

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/trompe-loeil-with-studio-wall-and-vanitas-still-life-rde156ee098f451>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [GIJSBRECHTS, Cornelis Norbertus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 152 x 118 cm

## Commentary

The painting shows a wooden wall with a canvas mounted on a temporary stretcher resting on a shelf that also bears the painter&#39;s paraphernalia. The canvas shows a still-life with symbols of death and resurrection, a so-called vanitas still-life. It was presumably this painting that secured Gijsbrechts the position as Court Painter to the Danish kings, first Frederic III \(1609-1675\) and later Christian V \(1646-1699\).

## Related artworks

- [A Cabinet in the Artist&#39;s Studio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/a-cabinet-in-the-artists-studio-rb93297a767982f>)
- [Board Partition with Letter Rack and Music Book](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/board-partition-with-letter-rack-and-music-book-r0c909b468cd0f5>)
- [Quodlibet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/quodlibet-r7479c62a287c00>)
- [Reverse side of a painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/reverse-side-of-a-painting-r5581622604effa>)
- [Still-Life with Self-Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/still-life-with-self-portrait-r4fe063e107120a>)
- [Trompe l&#39;oeil](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/trompe-loeil-r6fd7635e2c22dc>)
- [Vanitas Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gijsbrechts-cornelis-norbertus-rf79d703e152889/vanitas-still-life-r75ff296a9167c3>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)