EDWAERT COLLIER (BREDA 1642-1708 LONDON)

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08.12.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 128 | EDWAERT COLLIER (BREDA 1642-1708 LONDON)
EDWAERT COLLIER (BREDA 1642-1708 LONDON)

A skull atop a jewelled crown, an astrological globe, an hourglass, a book, a shell with soap bubbles and an engraved portrait of the Emperor Augustus on a draped table - a vanitas

oil on canvas

29 7⁄8 x 25 in. (75.7 x 63.6 cm.)

inscribed 'HOMO EST / SIMILIS / BULLÆ.' (lower left, on the slip of paper) and 'SIC FUGITT. / IRRE.PARABILE / TEMUS.' (upper right, on the paper scroll)





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 July 1978, lot 69.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 April 1998, lot 62, when acquired by the present owner.
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