Circle of Caspar Netscher (1639-1684)Images of bubbles were largely used in vanitas, a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with 17th-century Dutch still life painting and also common in other places and periods. Vanitas is loosely translated from Latin as the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of vanity. In the 17th century Dutch artists painted children blowing bubbles to convey the brevity of human life, the transience of beauty and the inevitability of death.
Homo Bulla - A Boy Blowing Bubbles, Bartholomeus Van Der Helst (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1670)In the sixteenth century, the Dutch philosopher Erasmus reintroduced the Latin expression “Homo bulla” (”man is a bubble”) in his “Adagia”, a collection of sayings published in 1572.
The symbolism of homo bulla was proverbial in the 1st century BC.
(http://pre-gebelin.blogspot.com/2009/01/homo-bulla-vanitas.html
http://oldprints.wordpress.com/2006/09/18/as-time-goes-by)
David Bailly (1584-1657) Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols
Matthijs Naiveu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter 1647-1726) Boy and Girl Blowing Soap Bubbles
Karel DUJARDIN (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1622-1678) Allegory 1663
Follower of Reinier de la Haye (Dutch, 1640-1695)
Adriana Gerarda Speelman (Dutch, 1801-1847) Homo bulla
Attributed to Jaques de Gheyn II (Antwerp 1565-1629) A vanitas allegory
Follower of Otto van Veen (Flemish Mannerist Painter, ca.1556-1629) Homo Bulla
Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755) An Allegory of Air
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