Willem Kalf
Still Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl
165958.4 x 50.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: W.KALF 1659.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1953
Literature
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 97
Provenance
Gräfin von Althann, Austria, ?about 1725
by family descent through the eldest daughter in each generation to Martha Freifrau von Schönau-Wehr, née Freiin von und zu Menzingen, Untermünstertal, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden, 1917–died 1939
her daughter, Hildegard Freifrau von Kittlitz und Ottendorf, Untermünstertal, from 1939
her son, Wilhelm Freiherr von Kittlitz und Ottendorf, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden, until 1950
sale, Pfister, Freiburg im Breisgau, 25-26 October 1950, nr. 517
with Otto Wertheimer, Paris, until 1951, sold to Knoedler
with Knoedler, New York, 1951–53, sold to MMA
Other works by Willem Kalf
A Silver Jug, a Glass on a Stand, and a Bowl with Fruit
c. 1655-57
c. 1655-57
Old Woman in a Kitchen
c. 1645
c. 1645
The Desert
Still Life
Interior of a Kitchen
c. 1642–44
c. 1642–44