Vanitas | De Champaigne | Skull Tulip Hourglass

Philippe de Champaigne's austere vanitas — skull, tulip, hourglass. Nothing else. The three objects chosen with Jansenist severity: the Dutch tulip at the height of its value and its bloom, the hourglass at work, the skull at rest. The most rigorous and the most beautiful of all vanitas compositions, c. 1671. Catalog No. 8114.