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An Allegory of Vanity

Artist Matthijs van den Bergh Flemish, 1615–1687

Date1651

MediumOil on oak panel

Dimensions8 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. (20.6 x 15.9 cm)
Frame: 12 3/8 x 10 1/2 x 1 11/16 in. (31.4 x 26.7 x 4.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number2012.7

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], 1651. Private collection, Belgium; [sale, Belgium, 2011]; [Jan Six Fine Art, Amsterdam, in association with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London]; sold to NCMA, 2012.Published ReferencesDennis P. Weller, “Close Encounters: Make Your Mark by Adopting a Painting,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 2013), mentioned and illus. (color) 23.

David Menconi, “Masterful artwork great & small,” Raleigh News & Observer (October 12, 2014), illus. (color) 8D.

Dennis P. Weller, “Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Fall 2014), illus. (color) 9.

Dennis P. Weller, Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2014), cat. no. 2, discussed 45–47, illus. (color) 44.

Adriaan E. Waiboer, et al, Vermeer et les Maîtres de la Peinture de Genre (exhibition catalogue) (Paris: Somology éditions d’art for Musée du Louvre, 2017), 416–17, illus. (color) 416, fig. 130 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries,” October 12, 2014–January 4, 2015, Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, February 1–April 6, 2015, cat. no. 2, illus. (color).

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