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Allegory on Transience
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Cornelis Visscher drew this young woman with coarse as well as very fine hatching in black chalk. While gazing beyond the picture plane with her sparkling eyes, she points out a sheet with verse to the viewer. Its message, in combination with the skull, the statuette of Time, and the broken glass, could not be clearer: life is finite.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAllegorie op de vergankelijkheid. c. 1654 - c. 1658. Cornelis Visscher (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
