GHEYN, Jacob de II
(b. 1565, Antwerp, d. 1629, The Hague)
GHEYN, Jacob de II (b. 1565, Antwerp, d. 1629, The Hague) |
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Vanitas Still-Life (detail)1603Oil on wood Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
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The coins depicted at the bottom of the composition on the sill between the vases were used as currency in the Netherlands about 1600. One of them, the silver medal of 1602 commemorates the capture of a Portuguese galleon by two Zeeland merchant ships earlier that year, off Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. | |
