The Gentleman's Dream
On the banner: Aeterne pungit, cito volat et occidit "Eternally it stings, swiftly it flies and it kills"
The Gentleman's Dream, The Knight's Dream or Dillusion with the World (Spanish: El sueño del caballero) is a 1650s vanitas painting by the Spanish artist Antonio de Pereda. It is now in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, whose collections it entered in 1816.[1]
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- 1650s paintings
- Spanish paintings
- Paintings in the collection of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- Angels in art