# Vanitas

> Still lifes of what money buys now, painted the way the Dutch painted the vanitas in the 1600s, sold as giclée prints on canvas in numbered editions of 25. Vanitas, a Specie house; Specie, a house of satirical painting.

Twelve pieces, each a table laid in the dark with five contemporary trophies and a reminder that none of them buys time. A configurator lets a buyer lay their own table from 16 objects, three tables and three lights, and commission it. Every maker's name on every object is invented. Pictures are made by an image model at the house's direction; nothing is hand-painted.

## Prices

- Gallery, 30 × 45 in: $1,800. Giclée print on canvas, gallery-wrapped. Numbered out of 25.
- Salon, 40 × 60 in: $3,200. Giclée print on canvas, gallery-wrapped. Numbered out of 25.
- Paper proof, 24 × 36 in: $650. Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Open edition.
- Commission: the canvas price plus $600, numbered separately. 3 free watermarked proofs per browser.
- Insured freight within the United States is included. Other destinations by quote.

## The twelve

- [Still Life with Black Card](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/still-life-with-black-card): The card that opens every door, in two pieces, beside the lemon the Dutch used for the bitterness under the peel.
- [The Watch Has No Hands](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/the-watch-has-no-hands): A watch that will not tell you the time, which is the one thing it was bought to keep.
- [Last Call](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/last-call): The bottle, the flute and a candle burned to the socket: the party, at the hour the staff start stacking chairs.
- [Carry-On](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/carry-on): Everything you need for a trip that is not happening.
- [Battery Low](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/battery-low): One percent, the modern skull.
- [Gold Bar, Melting](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/gold-bar-melting): The safest thing money can buy, in a warm enough room, given enough time.
- [Inheritance](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/inheritance): The ring comes down to you. The skull is what it was wearing.
- [The Lemon](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/the-lemon): The Dutch painted the lemon because it looks sweet and is not. Ours is the only object on the table with no luxury in it.
- [Do Not Disturb](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/do-not-disturb): A key to a room in a hotel that has closed, and a gold toothbrush for the morning there.
- [Regrets Only](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/regrets-only): The party was cancelled. The cards had already gone out.
- [House of Ash](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/house-of-ash): Smoked down to a column of ash that has not fallen yet.
- [The Fly](https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/pieces/the-fly): The Dutch put a fly on the banquet to say it would not keep. Ours landed on the lemon.

## Pages

- https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/: Set Your Table, the configurator, and the twelve
- https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/ledger: every numbered canvas sold, piece, number, size and date, never a name
- https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/faq: questions, including why the brands are invented
- https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/about: the Dutch painters the house borrows from, and who runs it
- https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/terms, https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/privacy, https://specie-vanitas.vercel.app/refunds: the fine print

## Contact

PaintedApp, LLC. support@painted.app.