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{{Painting | Artist = Jan van Kessel I {{Creator:Jan van Kessel, Senior}} | Title = '''''The Soap Bubbles''''' | Year = 1660s | Technique = {{Technique|oil|canvas}} | Dimensions = 67 x 51 cm | Gallery
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KESSEL, Jan van, I
(b. 1626, Antwerpen, d. 1679, Antwerpen)
The Soap Bubbles
1660s
Oil on canvas, 67 x 51 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The painting is the result of a collaboration with David Teniers the Younger. The decorative cartouche was painted by van Kessel, renowned for his compositions of shells and insects. The cartouche features four still-lifes on the elements: water is represented by fishes, air by birds, earth by fruit and flowers, and fire by the arms trophy at the top. Inside the stone cartouche Teniers revives a familiar theme, two boys blowing soap bubbles, an allegory of the vanity of worldly matters and the frailty of human life.
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Author: KESSEL, Jan van, I
Title: The Soap Bubbles
Time-line: 1651-1700
School: Flemish
Form: painting