Artwork Details
18-1/8 x 15 in. 24 x 24 in. (framed)
Mark DescriptionInscribed, lower right: A. 1629 Signed lower right: J. Falk f. Inscribed, lower right: Humana cuncta fumus, umbra, vanitas, et scenae imago. (All that is human is smoke, shadow, vanity and the picture of a stage.)
Accession NumberGift of Alfred Brod
CopyrightEuropean Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color PalettePrivate Dutch Collection, possibly in The Hague, by 1933.{1} (Alfred Brod, London, England);{2} purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1959. {1} The painting was included in the exhibition "Het Stilleven" held at the Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 18 February - 19 March 1933, catalogue no. 92 (as Jeremias Falck, "Twee doodskoppen met roos," 1629) with the provenance "Particuliere Nederlandsche verzameling." When it was illustrated in an article by Marcel George Roethlisberger, "Abraham Bloemaert's Vanitas Representations," Delineavit et sculpsit (Leiden), volume 5, 1991, no. 9, the author lists the (former) owner as "The Hague, Private Collection." As concerns a possible Goudstikker connection, this painting is not included in the May 1940 Goudstikker Blackbook which has recently been digitized, see http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/content/exhibitions/special/goudstikker-blackbook/blackbook.html {2} IMA Temporary Receipt No. 6723. The painting was probably included as no. 8 in the Alfred Brod Gallery's Winter Exhibition 1957, 6 December 1957-4 January 1958.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
The Viewing Project: The Museum of Wonder
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 14, 2011 - April 15, 2012
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