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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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Willem Kalf Still Life (mk08) oil on canvas


Still Life (mk08)
Still Life (mk08)
Painting ID::  21786
  C.1653/54 Oil on canvas 105x87.5cm St Petersburg,Hermitage
  C.1653/54 Oil on canvas 105x87.5cm St Petersburg,Hermitage

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Willem Kalf Still-Life with Drinking-Horn oil on canvas


Still-Life with Drinking-Horn
Still-Life with Drinking-Horn
Painting ID::  31336
  nn07 c. 1653 Oil on canvas, 86 x 102 cm National Gallery, London
  nn07 c. 1653 Oil on canvas, 86 x 102 cm National Gallery, London

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Willem Kalf A woman drawing water from a well under an arcade oil on canvas


A woman drawing water from a well under an arcade
A woman drawing water from a well under an arcade
Painting ID::  27542
  mk56 oil on panel.
  mk56 oil on panel.

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Willem Kalf Still Life oil on canvas


Still Life
Still Life
Painting ID::  33721
  mk86 c.1653/1654 Oil on canvas 105x87.5cm St Petersburg,Hermitage
  mk86 c.1653/1654 Oil on canvas 105x87.5cm St Petersburg,Hermitage

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Willem Kalf Still Life oil on canvas


Still Life
Still Life
Painting ID::  39319
  mk147 Glasgow Museum Art Gallery and Museum
  mk147 Glasgow Museum Art Gallery and Museum

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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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