Allegory of Charles I of England and Henrietta of France in a Vanitas Still Life (Q18446696)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: vanitas (Q733095)
artist: no value
collection: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location: Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
owned by: Robert Boulin (Q1278301) art dealer (Q173950) Patrick Weiller (Q18446967) Adolph Alfred Taubman (Q4647507)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: France (Q142)
depicts: death (Q4) Charles I of England (Q81506) Henrietta Maria of France (Q848615) bubble (Q75794) skull (Q13147) globe (Q133792) bust (Q241045) curtain (Q49005) coral (Q171446) silk (Q37681) seashell (Q213096) book (Q571)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://www.artsbma.org/collection/vanitas-still-life

information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog

description: During the seventeenth century a form of still life called the vanitas developed as a means to impart an allegorical message about the inevitability of death. The subject here refers to Charles I’s…

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