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Still Life with Skull, Pocket Watch, and Roses (Memento Mori)
1640-1650
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Jean Morin's print reproduces a lost painting by Philippe de Champaigne. The Latin inscription reads: "What are earth and ashes to the proud? / The hour flies, honor fades, and dark death threatens all."
- Artist
- Jean Morin
- After
- Philippe de Champaigne
- Printer/Publisher
- Pierre-François Basan
- Title
- Still Life with Skull, Pocket Watch, and Roses (Memento Mori)
- Date
- 1640-1650
- Object Type
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- Image: 12 11/16 x 12 1/2 in. (32.2 x 31.8 cm) (cropped)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund
- Accession Number
- 1994.13
