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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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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