This painting is a form of Vanitas by a painter called Harmen Steenwyck
Vanitas paintings/photography is a type of still life.
Vanitas is a type of symbolic art associated with still life painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Vanitas was common in Flanders and the Netherlands and in other places or countries, during that time period.
Vanitas’ theme was common for medieval funeral art, with most surviving examples in sculptures.
Common Vanitas symbols would include the following:
- Skulls
- Flowers
- Rotten Fruit
- Bubbles
- Smoke
- Watches/Hourglasses
- Musical Instruments
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