Old Master Paintings Part Two

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Lot 341
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Simon Renard de Saint-André Paris 1614 - 1677

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Description

  • Simon Renard de Saint-André
  • A vanitas still life with a skull, a viol and a violin bow, a pocket-watch, a musical score and other objects, all laid out on a draped table
  • oil on canvas

Catalogue Note

The objects included in the present composition, and the arrangement thereof, are often repeated by the artist.  Most of his paintings comprise the skull, the small viol (known in English as a kit and in French as a pochette), the fluted silver candlestick and the musical score inscribed in French; see, for example, his painting in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseilles (reproduced in M. Faré, Le Grand Siècles de la Nature Morte en France, Paris 1974, vol. I, p. 168).