Vanitas Still-Life
by COLLIER, Edwart, Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm
This vanitas still-life, executed in London, depicts a candlestick, a skull, a shell, bubbles, a watch, a portrait of Charles I, and other objects on a draped table. The inscription on a piece of paper lower right reads: NEMO ANTE/MORTEM/BEATUS DICI/POTEST (“No one can be called happy before his death”).