Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario

The painting features a white marble Spinario statue seated on a pedestal to the left, draped in cloth, with a stack of books behind it. In front of and across a table covered by a dark cloth lie a skull and bones, a glass, a violin and bow, armor, an open book with a sketch, and scattered papers, forming a dense still-life tableau. The color palette is warm and muted—browns, ochres, and creamy highlights—rendered with careful, tactile brushwork typical of Pieter Claesz’s vanitas still lifes, emphasizing mortality and the fragility of worldly goods.