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Allegory on Vanity: Child with Bubbles, a Skull by his Side

Cornelis Schut

Allegory on Vanity: Child with Bubbles, a Skull by his Side

1616-1654

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Cornelis Schut

Allegory on Vanity: Child with Bubbles, a Skull by his Side

1616-1654

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 75 × 66 mm. (2 15/16 × 2 5/8 in.) Plate: 61 × 52 mm. (2 3/8 × 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.4560

Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "CS in"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Cornelis Schut

1596–1654

Flemish, 1597-1655
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