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Vanitas: A Young Woman with Mirror and Putto
Jacob (Jacques) de Gheyn II (Dutch, 1565–1629)
1595–96
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 27.5 x 18.3 cm (10 13/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 27.62 x 18.42 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 27.62 x 18.42 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Robert and Barbara Wheaton
Accession Number2008.679
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein (de Gheyn) 125, only state; Hollstein VII 104; Le Blanc 109
Signed
signed in plate
Marks
InscriptionsRecto, in plate, on banderole: VANITAS... VANITATUM... ET OMNIA... VANITAS; in plate, lower left: IDGheÿn. fe. et ex; in plate, below: O hominum amentes mentes, nec inanium inanes,Quas miseri miserè dum pereunt pereunt Hug. Grotius. AEtat. xii
ProvenanceBassenge, Berlin, November 29, 2007, lot 5100; to Christopher Mendez (London); to Hill-Stone (New York); from whom purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date: September 17, 2008)