Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael

Homo bulla: an allegory of the transience of life

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Property of a Noblewoman

Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael

Utrecht 1566–1638

Homo bulla: an allegory of the transience of life

inscribed on the later surround: SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

oil on twelve-lobed silver, with three incuse marks of a four-leaf rosette and two five-pointed stars on the reverse, inserted into a later painted rectangular wood panel

diameter of silver panel: 8 cm.; 3⅛ in.

overall panel: 13 x 11 cm.; 5⅛ x 4⅝ in.

Pär Ulmgrens (1767–1846), Stockholm, no. 58 (?) (his collector's label affixed to the reverse);

Anonymous sale, Stockholm, Bukowski, 30 October – 1 November 1990, lot 302 (as Rudolfine Master circa 1600);

With Emmanuel Moatti, Paris, by 1992;

Acquired from Moatti, Sayn-Wittgenstein Fine Arts at TEFAF Maastricht, 15 March 1993.

G. Georget and A.W. Lowenthal in Moatti Tableaux Anciens, exh. cat., Paris 1992, pp. 1–4, reproduced;

A.W. Lowenthal, ‘Desire and Devotion in Wtewael's Art’, in Pleasure and Piety. The Art of Joachim Wtewael, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2015–16, Princeton 2015, p. 195 n. 18.

Paris, Grand Palais, XVIe Biennale des Antiquaires, 18 September – 4 October 1992, no. 1.