Advanced Search 
Vanitas
Publisher: Henri Bonnart (French, about 1610–1682)
1645
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Height x width: 13.2 × 18.5 cm (5 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number2019.766
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIay esté comme vous
Vous serez comme moy
Pensez y bien
L'heure approche.
Tu peux lire pecheur en cette allegorie
Ou ce sable qui passe a bientost fait son cours
Comme l'on voit ternir ces fleurs en peu de iours
Aussi legerement tu dois finir ta vie.
[rough translation]
I was like you
You will be like me
Think well upon it
The hour approaches
You can read sinner in this allegory
Where the sand that falls has soon run its course
As one sees the flowers fade in a few days
Just as gently you will end your life.
Vous serez comme moy
Pensez y bien
L'heure approche.
Tu peux lire pecheur en cette allegorie
Ou ce sable qui passe a bientost fait son cours
Comme l'on voit ternir ces fleurs en peu de iours
Aussi legerement tu dois finir ta vie.
[rough translation]
I was like you
You will be like me
Think well upon it
The hour approaches
You can read sinner in this allegory
Where the sand that falls has soon run its course
As one sees the flowers fade in a few days
Just as gently you will end your life.
Provenance2018, sold by Galerie Seydoux, Paris, to Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA; 2019, sold by Hill-Stone to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)