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Wineglass and a Bowl of Fruit

1663

Willem Kalf

(Dutch, 1619–1693)

Netherlands, 17th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 81 x 70.5 x 7.5 cm (31 7/8 x 27 3/4 x 2 15/16 in.); Unframed: 60.3 x 50.2 cm (23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1962.292

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215 French, German, and Dutch

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Willem Kalf was the most accomplished proponent of the pronkstilleven, a Dutch term meaning "ostentatious still life."

Description

Priceless objects crowd the corner of a stone table in Kalf's composition. Pieces like the silver platter, delicate glasswares, thick rumpled carpet, and a Chinese porcelain bowl with peaches and an orange not only represented the great wealth and global reach of the Dutch trading empire, but were also a way for the artist to demonstrate his skill in recreating various surface textures. Kalf used different kinds of highlights to render reflections—quick dots, lines, and dabs of paint—creating sparkling, twinkling light effects that subtly distinguish objects from the surrounding shadows.
In 1797, the German poet Johann van Goethe wrote that Kalf's paintings lead to understanding "in what sense art is superior to nature and what the spirit of man imparts to objects when it views them with creative eyes. . . . if I had to choose between the golden vessels or the picture . . . I would choose the picture."

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Inscription

Signed and dated lower left: "W. KALF 1663"

Provenance

Before 1959

(Galerie M. Schulthess, Basel, probably sold to G. Vegting)

By 1959

G. Vegting, Amsterdam ¹

Until 1962

(Duits, Ltd., London, sold to Piet de Boer with Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries) ²

Until 1962

(Piet de Boer with Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) ³

1962-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Provenance Footnotes

¹1In 1959 the painting was lent to the exhibition, “Fra Rembrandt til Vermeer,” at the Nasjongalleriet, Oslo by “G. Vegting, Amsterdam.” Little information about "G. Vegting" has been uncovered. A Wilhelmus Gerardus Vegting was a prominent figure in university administration in Amsterdam; however, he died three years prior to the Oslo exhibition, and thus was likely not the owner of the Kalf.

²1Duits may have sold the painting on behalf of Vegting.

³1The Kalf painting does not appear in the sales records of Kunsthandel P. de Boer, suggesting that it was sold not through the gallery but privately through Piet de Boer, the gallery's owner. The gallery's archives do contain a photograph of the painting with an inscription written on the back - "Duits→PB+M+N→Mus. Cleveland" - that spells out the joint purchase of the painting by de Boer, Mont, and Newhouse Galleries from Duits, Ltd. and the subsequent sale to CMA.

Citations

Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988.

Niels de Boer, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2016, in CMA curatorial file.

Willem Kalf, Index cards of work sold, A – N, Duits, Ltd. records (1920-1979), box 37, Getty Research Institute.

Niels de Boer, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 7, 2016, in CMA curatorial file.

Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988.

Willem Kalf, Index cards of work sold, A – N, Duits, Ltd. records (1920-1979), box 37, Getty Research Institute.

Errera, Isabelle. Répertoire des peintures datées, par Isabella Errera. Brussels: G. van Oest & cie, 1920. Reproduced: p. 308, vol. 1

Vermeer, Oorsprong en Invloed: Fabritius, de Hooch, de Witte. Exh. cat. Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.. [Rotterdam]: van Waesberge, Hoogewerff & Richards, n. v., 1935. Mentioned: p. 27, no. 63; reproduced: pl. 63

Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Accessions Put on Display at Art Museum,” July 9, 1963, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (1963): 263-94. Mentioned: cat. no. 90 www.jstor.org

Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 125 archive.org

Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. Reproduced: no. 167

Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 124 archive.org

Nash, J. M. The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century. London, UK: Phaidon, 1972. Reproduced: pl. 73

“Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century.” Connoisseur 184 (October 1973): 136. Reproduced: p. 136, no. 13

Grisebach, Lucius. Willem Kalf: 1619-1693. Berlin: Mann, 1974. Mentioned: pp. 122 n. 267, 147, 148, 149, 160, 161, 272, 273, 277, 278, 279; Reproduced: p. 272 no. 126

Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 160 archive.org

Chinese Export Porcelains from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Harold L. Tonkin. [University Park, PA]: Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1980. Reproduced: p. 9

The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 251; Mentioned: p. 250

Carswell, John, and Jean McClure Mudge. Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and Its Impact on the Western World. Chicago, IL: The Gallery, 1985. Reproduced: p. 110, fig. 12

Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, D.C.: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986. Reproduced: p. 339, fig. 93; Mentioned: p. 67-68

Segal, Sam, and William B. Jordan. A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands, 1600-1700. The Hague: SDU Publishers, 1988. Mentioned: pp. 195, 249 no. 56; Reproduced: p. 249

Kujer, Susanne, and Michael-René Ursprung. Vom Leben der Dinge--Stilleben: Schulbegleitbuch über Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik des Städelschen Kunstinstitutes und der Städtischen Galerie in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main: Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 1994. Reproduced: p. 24, no. 18

Sakamoto, Mitsuru, and Tatsushi Takahashi. Barokku 2. Tōkyō, JP: Shōgakukan, 1995. Reproduced: p. 298, no. 192

Still-life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720. Alan Chong, W T. Kloek, and Celeste Brusati. Exh. Cat. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, and Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Waanders Publishers, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 219-221, cat. 51.

The Magic of Things: Still-Life Painting, 1500-1800. Jochen Sander. Exh. cat. Frankfurt-am-Main: Stadel Museum and Basel: Kunstmuseum, in association with Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 309-310, fig. 64

Exhibition history

Fra Rembrandt til Vermeer. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo (Oct. 9 - Dec. 6, 1959), no. 36 (lent by G. Begting, Amsterdam)

Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and its Impact on the Western World. The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago (Oct. 3- Dec. 1, 1985), no. 51.

A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands. Het Prinsenhof, Stedelijk Museum, Delft (July 1- Sept. 4, 1988); Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge MA (Oct. 1- Nov. 27, 1988); and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (Dec. 10, 1988,- Feb. 12, 1989), no. 56.

Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).

A Prosperous Past: The Sumptuous Still Life in the Netherlands. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (co-organizer) (July 1-September 4, 1988); Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA (co-organizer) (October 1-November 27, 1988); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (co-organizer) (December 10, 1988-February 12, 1989).

Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 19-September 19, 1999); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 31, 1999-January 9, 2000).

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