Vanitas Still-Life
by COLLIER, Edwart, Oil on canvas, 128 x 101 cm
This vanitas still-life depicts a volume of the Bucaniers of America, a globe, books, an address to the commons, a candle, a quill, a key and a pocketwatch, all upon a table. Collier repeated this successful composition on several occasions.He included in this still-life an edition of the recently published Bucaniers of America. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin’s Bucaniers of America was one of the most popular books of the late seventeenth-century.