Willem Kalf
Paintings
Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl Nautilus Cup Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish
Still life with silver jug
Still life with ginger pot and porcelain bowl
Still Life with Chinese Tureen
Still-Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar
Still-Life with a Nautilus Cup
Still-Life with Porcelain and a Nautilus Cup
Still-Life with Silver Bowl, Glasses, and Fruit
Still-Life with an Aquamanile, Fruit, and a Nautilus Cup
Still-Life with Glass Goblet and Fruit
Still-Life with Lemon, Oranges and Glass of Wine
Still-Life with Chinese Porcelain Bowl
Still-Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl
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Pronk Still Life with Holbein Bowl Nautilus Cup Glass Goblet and Fruit Dish
Willem Kalf (1619 – 31 July 1693) [1] was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes. Later in his life, Kalf became an art dealer and appraiser.[1]
Life and work
He was previously thought to have been born in 1622, but H. E. van Gelder’s important archival research has established the painter’s correct place and date of birth.[1] Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well.[1] In the late 1630s, Willem Kalf travelled to Paris and spent time in the circle of the Flemish artists in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.[1] In Paris he painted mainly small-scale rustic interiors and still lifes.[1] Kalf’s rustic interiors are typically dominated by groups of vegetables, buckets, pots and pans, which he arranged as a still life in the foreground (e.g. Kitchen Still life, Dresden, Gemäldegal. Alte Meister).[1] Figures usually appeared only in the blurred obscurity of the background. Though painted in Paris, those pictures belong to a pictorial tradition practised primarily in Flanders in the early 17th century, by such artists as David Teniers the Younger.[1] The only indication of the French origin of the paintings are a few objects that Flemish exponents of the same genre would not have pictured in their works.[1] Kalf’s rustic interiors had a large influence on French art in the circle of the Le Nain brothers.[1] The semi-monochrome still lifes which Kalf created in Paris form a link to the banketjes or 'little banquet pieces' painted by such Dutch artists as Pieter Claesz, Willem Claeszoon Heda and others in the 1630s.[1] During the 1640s, Kalf further developed the banketje into a novel form of sumptuous and ornate still life (known as pronkstilleven), depicting rich groupings of gold and silver vessels.[1] Like other still lifes of this period, these paintings were usually expressing vanitas allegories.[1]
Still lifes
Kalf's magnificent still life paintings vary little in their structure, and most of them actually feature the same objects.[1] Usually, a damask cloth or tapestry is draped upon a table on which there is tableware, with gold and silver vessels, many of which have been identified as work of specific goldsmiths, such as Johannes Lutma. There is almost always a Chinese porcelain bowl, often tilted so that the fruits tumble out of it.
Notes
"Willem Kalf (1622–1693)" (history, note year "1622" revised), Artfact, 1986-2007, webpage: http://www.artfact.com/features/viewArtist.cfm?artistRef=KZUVLCC1Z4
External links
Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Kalf (cat. no. 16)
Painted Light Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany
Willem Kalf page at the Rijksmuseum's website.
Online gallery and literature at PubHist
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