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Young woman blowing a bubble beside a skull, violin and open book on a green-draped table, in a vanitas still life.

Bubble-blowing Girl with a Vanitas Still Life

A young woman in a blue bodice and white sleeves blows a bubble through a pipe in a stone niche, her other hand holding a shallow dish. A green-draped table holds a skull, a violin, and an open book, all arranged as a vanitas still life beside a dark red curtain.

Artist
manier van Adriaen van der Werff
Date
1680-1775
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2548 × 3460 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1775.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Vanitas and Memento Mori18th centurystill lifememento morivanitasoil paintingallegorydutch paintingskullwoman portraitviolingreen table

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