Vanitas Still Life with a Statuette of an Antique Athlete and a Print of Michelangelo

Edwaert Collier (Breda c.1640 - Leyden c.1707). Oil painting on panel, Vanitas Still Life with a Statuette of an Antique Athlete and a Print of Michelangelo, by Edwaert Collier (Breda c.1640 - Leyden c.1707), signed mid-left: Edwaerdus Colier / f 1675. A range of objects displayed on a table covered in red, gold-fringed cloth, with the stone base of a column in the right background. Most prominent on the table is an open printed book, with the inscription "Beschrijvinggen van de Stadt / HAERLEM" visible on the recto. The book rests on a skull to the right. A red recorder, or handfluyt, and a roll of paper, on which there are no legible inscriptions, rest on the stand of a celestial globe in the background, the sign of cancer most prominently visible. To the left of the book is a statuette of an antique athlete, with a torch in his left hand and another object in his right. Between the statuette and the globe is an hour glass. On the table in front of the book is another wind instrument, a sword, an open pocket watch on a chain, a slip of paper bearing the inscription VANITAS / VANITATUM / ET OMNIA / VANITAS, and a print with a portrait of Michelangelo hanging over the edge of the table. Dyrham, Gloucestershire (Accredited Museum)