Vanitas | Skull Hourglass Candle | Dutch Golden Age

The canonical vanitas composition — skull, hourglass, and guttered candle on a table. The three emblems of time's passage arranged as a still life. In the tradition of Pieter Claesz and the Dutch masters who spent months on a single meditation on mortality disguised as a painting of objects. Source: 17th-century Dutch engraving. Catalog No. 8101.