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Vanitas Still Life

Gallery 964 · Jacques de Gheyn II · 1603 · Met web page

Vanitas Still Life (1603). Oil on wood by Jacques de Gheyn II, the earliest known independent vanitas painting.

Gallery 827 → Gallery 964

To Vanitas Still Life

Vanitas Still Life by Jacques de Gheyn II

Walk from gallery 827 through galleries 828, 830, 917, then take the elevator down to Floor 1. Walk through galleries 350, 341, 550, 548, 529, 528, 524, 522, 520, 521, 962, then take the stairs to gallery 964 on Floor G.