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Vanitas Themed Painting with a Clock, 1918

SOLD

Material

Oil Paint, Metal and Wood

About

Vanitas themed painting with an angel in a red dress pointing to a banner in Latin that reads: "Any given hour reminds you that present things perish = one of these hours will come which will day to you depart." The putti (cherub) sits next to a skull and a candle which are popular vanitas symbols in 16th and 17th century art work. Clock is not working but come with additional parts.

Dimensions

H 20.5 in. x W 17 in. x D 5.69 in.