Vanitas still life

On a table with ruffled cover various objects indicating transience: Lute and violin with cracked strings, overturned nautilus goblet, skull with laurel wreath on a book, a female statuette (Giambologna, architecture), a globe. In the background, two rising soap bubbles and a suggestion of architecture with a curtain. Particularly striking: music book; open emblem book with oval-framed picture (Otto van Veen: Amorum Emblemata, 1608); large portrait copperplate engraving (Heinrich Aldegrever: Jan van Leyden, 1536).