Lot 485: Hendrik Heerschop (1620-after 1672)

A Vanitas: A scholar at work by a table by a column, visited by Truth while Time and Death appear in the background signed and dated HF. HEERSCHOP/A 1651 (HF linked) lower right oil on canvas, laid down on board, unframed 64.1 x 55.1 cm PROVENANCE with B.Rapp, Stockholm, 1948. SALESROOM NOTICE Please note that the woman standing in the centre holding the sceptre with an eye is to be identified as a personification of Chastity (see C. Ripa, Iconologia of Uytbeeldighe des Verstands, 1971, p.632 ).