Willem Kalf

Rotterdam 1619 - Amsterdam 1693


Still Life of a chafing dish, two pilgrims' canteens, a silver-gilt ewer, a plate and other tableware on a partially draped table

Oil on canvas 101 x 80.5 cm

Signed lower right, on the front edge of the table: w. KALF.

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

Aktiensgesellschaft für Kunstwerte, Zurich (i.e., Franz Matthiesen [1897 – 1963] and Gottfried Tanner [1880 – 1958], probably before or within 1934, subsequently consigned to Matthiesen’s London firm;

Francis Matthiesen, Matthiesen Gallery, London, by or within 1936, and still in Dec. 1938;

With Mortimer Brandt (1905 – 1993), Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York, by November 1941;

with Paul Drey (1885 – 1953), Paul Drey Gallery, New York, by 1945;

With Christian Faerber (1901 – 1967), Gothenburg, Sweden, by 1947;

Still as property of Francis Matthiesen, Matthiesen Gallery, London, in 1953;

Presumably in joint ownership, Faerber and Matthiesen Gallery, still in 1959;

[The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1966, lot 121;

Acquired by Herman Shickman, New York, by 1967;

His sale, Christie’s, NY, May 1, 2019, lot 107, where acquired by the present owner.

 
Literature

The Burlington Magazine, LXXIII, 1938, December Supplement, no. V, illustrated;

H.E. van Gelder, W.C. Heda, A. van Beyeren, W. Kalf, Amsterdam, 1941, pp. 42, 47;

W. Stechow, 'Notes on an Exhibition of Still Life Paintings from the 17th to the 19th Century', Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, II, 1945, pp. 9-10, illustrated;

I. Bergström, Holländskt Stillebenmåleri: Under 1600-Talet, Gothenburg, 1947, pp. 272- 273, fig. 223.

I. Bergström, Dutch Still-Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century, London, 1956, pp. 269-270, fig. 233.

L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf, 1619-1693, 1974, pp. 239-240, no. 68, fig. 70.

 


Exhibition

London, Matthiesen Gallery, Still Life and Flower Paintings of the Old and Modern Masters, 13 June-22 July 1938, no. 32;

Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Still Life Paintings 17th to 19th Century, March 1945;

Stockholm, National Museum, Konstkatter fraan Hollandsguldaalder, January-March 1959, no. 229;

Oslo, Nasjonalgalleriet, Fra Rembrandt til Vermeer, 9 October-6 December 1959, no. 35;

New York, Shickman Gallery, Exhibition of Dutch Seventeenth Century Paintings, October 1967, no. 2;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grand Gallery, 19 October 1974-5 January 1975, no. 118.
New York, National Academy of Design, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections, September 1988, no. 27;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999-2018, on loan.

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Gemaltes Licht: Die Stilleben von Willem Kalf, 25 November 2006-3 June 2007, no. 21.