The work depicts a seventeenth-century gentleman dressed in the clothing of the time and asleep while an angel shows him the ephemeral character of pleasures, riches, honors and glory. The angel shows him the hieroglyph of the date on the sun, which wounds, flies fast and kills. The set of objects placed on the table constitutes a real still life in which a condensation of symbols and allegories is established. The symbols of the table are very complex, but some stand out for their continuous presence in all the "vanitas": the skull that symbolizes death, the theater mask on hypocrisy, the jewels and money that are the riches that we can not take to the other world, the deck and weapons such as the game and the pleasures of hunting, the clock that indicates the inexorable passage of time, the extinguished candle that indicates the extinction of life... there are innumerable objects and the multiple crimped meanings that we can get out of all of them. The painter has represented a "corpus" of the objects of the vanity of the world and its meaninglessness treated with a masterful definition that individualizes them as a way of accentuating, through the real, the presence of its didactic, allegorical and moral character.