Guitarplayer

Panel
Dated: 1641
52 x 47 cm
Inv.nr. 164-1946, Cat. nr. 141

The feather hat that the woman is wearing characterizes her as a prostitute. She is drinking (Taste), smoking (Smell), prodding the man with her pipe (Touch), who is playing the guitar (Hearing). Only Sight is missing, and this may have been depicted in a cut-off part of the background.

Old man with a vanitas still life

Canvas
72 x 78 cm
Inv.nr. 168-1946, Cat. nr. 142

All the traditional attributes of a vanitas painting are present. The old man focuses on a picture of "youth" as represented by a picture of a boy, put on the table by another young man.