"Bronze Medal Depicting A Vanitas Figure With A Young Woman And A Skull - France/belgium - 19th/20th Century"
A double-sided bronze medal: the obverse features a delicate profile portrait of a young woman, rendered in an aesthetic reminiscent of Art Nouveau; the reverse depicts a skull in relief, accompanied by the motto "VANITY – WHERE ARE YOU?". The work illustrates the symbolic confrontation between fleeting beauty and the certainty of death, a characteristic theme of Vanitas paintings in Belgian and French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 
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