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Emblematic Still Life with Flagon, Glass, Jug and Bridle
Also titled Emblematisch stilleven met kan, glas, kruik en breidel
Johannes Torrentius (Amsterdam, 1589–1644)
1614
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: diameter 51 cm x diameter 51.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
A pewter flagon, a wine glass, an earthenware jug, a bridle or rein, and a piece of paper with two staves and inscribed ‘what is out of measure, perishes in immeasurable evil.’ These are exhortations to moderation. You must cut wine with water, curb your appetites. This strict message contrasts sharply with the reputation of the painter, who was repeatedly accused of whoremongery and heresy.
