Willem Kalf
1619-1693 Dutch Willem Kalf Galleries Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619. 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. Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well. In the late 1630s, Willem Kalf travelled to Paris and spent time in the circle of the Flemish artists in Saint-Germain-des-Pr??s, Paris. In Paris he painted mainly small-scale rustic interiors and still-lifes. 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). 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. 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. Kalf??s rustic interiors had a large influence on French art in the circle of the Le Nain brothers. 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. 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. Like other still-lifes of this period, these paintings were usually expressing vanitas allegories.

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Willem Kalf Still life with Chinese Porcelain Jar oil painting


Still life with Chinese Porcelain Jar
mk156 1662 Oil on canvas 64x53cm
Painting ID::  40503
Willem Kalf
Still life with Chinese Porcelain Jar
mk156 1662 Oil on canvas 64x53cm
   
   
     

Willem Kalf Dessert oil painting


Dessert
mk159 c.1659 Oil on canvas 105x87.5cm
Painting ID::  41032
Willem Kalf
Dessert
mk159 c.1659 Oil on canvas 105x87.5cm
   
   
     

Willem Kalf still Life oil painting


still Life
MK169 ca.1650-90 Shut down 71.5x62cm
Painting ID::  42719
Willem Kalf
still Life
MK169 ca.1650-90 Shut down 71.5x62cm
   
   
     

Willem Kalf Still Life with the Drinking-Horn of the Saint Sebastian Archers-Guild,Lobster and Glasses oil painting


Still Life with the Drinking-Horn of the Saint Sebastian Archers-Guild,Lobster and Glasses
mk170 circa 1653 Oil on canvas 86.4x102.2cm
Painting ID::  43218
Willem Kalf
Still Life with the Drinking-Horn of the Saint Sebastian Archers-Guild,Lobster and Glasses
mk170 circa 1653 Oil on canvas 86.4x102.2cm
   
   
     

Willem Kalf Style life with Porzellankanme oil painting


Style life with Porzellankanme
mk186 1653 Munchen, old Pinakothek
Painting ID::  45605
Willem Kalf
Style life with Porzellankanme
mk186 1653 Munchen, old Pinakothek
   
   
     

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     1619-1693 Dutch Willem Kalf Galleries Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619. 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. Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well. In the late 1630s, Willem Kalf travelled to Paris and spent time in the circle of the Flemish artists in Saint-Germain-des-Pr??s, Paris. In Paris he painted mainly small-scale rustic interiors and still-lifes. 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). 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. 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. Kalf??s rustic interiors had a large influence on French art in the circle of the Le Nain brothers. 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. 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. Like other still-lifes of this period, these paintings were usually expressing vanitas allegories.

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