The painting depicts the Allegory of Time Warner: A young and attractive girl (Beauty), portrayed while she is combing her hair braided with pearls (symbol of purity) in front of a mirror (symbol of vanity), turns, as if caught in the 'sudden, but at the same time pleased and smiling, towards an elderly, bearded man (Time) who seems to come suddenly behind him, handing her a rose, an allegory of life which, like that flower, is destined to wither.

The spread of this profane subject in the seventeenth century can be explained by observing the historical scenario in which Baroque art develops, which expresses the discomfort of a society in which everything became fleeting and changeable.
The work has been attributed to the circle of the Genoese painter Domenico Piola (1627-1703), who created a painting with the same subject, where the rendering of the slightly shaded complexions, the transitions from light to dark and the expression of the face are identical. weather.

Location: room n. 1