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David Bailly portrayed himself as a young man on the left, and then again in later life in the small oval painting that he holds up. Along with the skull, the costly objects and soap bubbles, the painter is illustrating the transience of life. For Bailly's deceased wife, in the other oval, time has stood still. Her likeness appears again as a vague apparition behind the fluted glass

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Size: 4906px × 3679px
Location: Musée de Lakenhal
Photo credit: © Thierrymas94 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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