Great Vanity (Stoskopff)
The Great Vanity is a 1641 Baroque allegorical still life painting by the Alsatian artist Sebastian Stoskopff. It is on display in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame. Its inventory number is MBA 1249 ("MBA" stands for Musée des Beaux-Arts).[2][1]
| Great Vanity | |
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| French: Grande Vanité | |
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| Artist | Sebastian Stoskopff |
| Year | 1641 |
| Medium | oil painting on canvas |
| Movement | Baroque painting Allegory Still life |
| Subject | Vanity |
| Dimensions | 125 cm × 165 cm (49 in × 65 in)[1] |
| Location | Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg |
The painting is the last, largest, and most ambitious of Stoskopff's Vanitas still lifes, and the sum of his painterly achievements at this point in his career (Stoskopff had just settled again in his hometown of Strasbourg, after many years in Paris). Among the multiple symbolic elements of its iconography relating to ephemerality and death, it quotes an engraving by Jacques Callot, depicting a jester. [2][1]
References
- Broucke, Camille (December 2013). Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame. Arts du Moyen-Âge et de la Renaissance. Strasbourg: Éditions des Musées de Strasbourg. p. 188. ISBN 9782351251058.
- Dupeux, Cécile (December 1999). Strasbourg - Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame. Paris: Éditions Scala. pp. 94–95. ISBN 2-86656-223-2.
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