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Watching a Paper-Cut Wind Toy (Memento mori)
VISUAL WORKS, PICTURES AND PLAQUES
oil painting
Juweel, Nicolaas
Europe: Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Rotterdam
c.1697
oil; canvas
overall: 390 x 320 mm
1999.178
VISUAL WORKS, PICTURES AND PLAQUES
oil painting
Juweel, Nicolaas
Europe: Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Rotterdam
c.1697
oil; canvas
overall: 390 x 320 mm
Framed painting (oil) of a group of four people watching a suspended paper toy (memento mori). Features a woman in metal nose spectacles and a man using a quizzer. Possibly signed and dated (now illegible) within the intricate pattern of the paper cutting. Later (19th century) English picture frame with fluted hollow and gilded gesso.
1999.178