Sanatçı: Pieter Symonsz Potter
Tarih: 1646
Boyut: 54 x 41 cm
teknik: Oil On Panel
Pieter Symonsz Potter painted this Vanitas Still Life in 1646. Almost all the elements in the scene – the skull, small lamp, air bubbles and the old books – are unmistakable allusions to transience and the brevity of mortal life on earth. The dice, flute and book of music also feature regularly in such scenes, stressing how relative human pleasures are.7 The vanitas still life was an extremely popular subject in 16th- and 17th-century prints and paintings.8 A striking detail in this still life is the large seal with a lion, which was the Great Seal of the United Provinces.9 This rather monochrome work with its predominantly brown hues was probably painted quite quickly, given its simple composition. According to Meijer there is a still life by Jacques de Claeuw that bears some relationship to this late painting by Potter.10 One unusual feature of this work is its vertical format. Potter made two other vanitas still lifes, and there are several others that are attributed to him. They are horizontal works and are more grey than brown in tone. Potter’s earliest signed and dated vanitas still life is from 1636.11 It shows a globe, a skull, some books, letters and an hour-glass, and betrays the influence of the Leiden still-life painters Harmen and Pieter van Steenwijck, which is less apparent in Potter’s later work.12 Potter painted another Vanitas Still Life two years later.13 The skull in that painting is seen from the same angle as this one, but the scene looks freer in its brushwork and composition. The scale of the objects was increased. One possible explanation for that is the growing influence of Jan Davidsz de Heem. None of the vanitas still lifes attributed to Potter can be dated as late as the one in the Rijksmuseum.14 Unusually, the provenance of the Amsterdam painting can be traced back to the 17th century, specifically to the estate of Adriana Balckeneynde, who was married to Pieter Potter’s son Paulus.15 Everhard Korthals Altes, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 249.
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