Willem Kalf

Drinking Horn with a Lobster on a Table



Willem Kalf - Drinking Horn with a Lobster on a Table



Willem Kalf
Drinking Horn with a Lobster on a Table
c. 1653
86.4 x 102.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left: W. Kalf
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 213-214, plate 183
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 361


Exhibitions

1999 Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720, Nr. 48
1976 Art in 17th-century Holland, Nr. 64

Provenance

Either this painting or the upright autograph version presumably recorded in the inventory of the Amsterdam wine dealer Arnout Stevens, 28 January 1706: 'de horen met meerder stil Leven van Willem Kalf.' This painting was sold shortly afterwards at auction: Amsterdam, 31 March 1706, nr. 1 'Een Kapitael stuk, van Willem Kalf (zynde een stil Leven) daer in de Drinkhoren, 't beste van hem bekent.'
collection of William Newall, London, around 1860
by decent Robert Sterling Newall
National Gallery, London, bequeathed by Robert Sterling, Newall, 1978
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External links

RKD 202418
National Gallery, London Accession number NG6444

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