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Vanitas painting, Amsterdam, 1681
Godines, Benjamin Senior1681
The Jewish Museum, London
London, United Kingdom
Tempera painting, one of set of three commissioned by Isaac de Matatiah Aboab. A fashionably dressed young man, attended by a small black servant, starts on seeing bones and a rotting corpse attacked by flies and birds in a cemetery. Various Hebrew moralistic quotations in the background.
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Details
- Title: Vanitas painting, Amsterdam, 1681
- Date Created: 1681
- object number: JM 895.1
- artist: Godines, Benjamin Senior
- Physical Dimensions: w307 x h396 mm
- Type: painting
- Rights: Digital image: Jewish Museum London
- External Link: http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/search-our-collections-new?adlibid=6209&offset=0
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