Vanitas: Skull, Skeleton and Vanitas Inscriptions in an Engraving
An engraved vanitas print shows a large human skull resting on a stone ledge beside a leg bone and a small ball, with a skeleton reclining at the bottom. Inscribed Latin and Greek mottoes frame the central scene, with hourglasses and burning torches in the margins.
- Artist
- Jan Saenredam
- Date
- c. 1600
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory laid paper
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 1959 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1605).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds
