Core Record |
| Title |
Still Life: Silver-gilt Goblet and Bowl of Fruit |
| Alternative Title |
Still life |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Artist |
Kalf, Willem (Dutch painter, 1619-1693) |
| Date Earliest |
probably about 1656 |
| Date Latest |
probably about 1660 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
A table, on which there is a knife, a blue and white plate containing a pumpkin and a partly peeled lemon, a richly patterned table cover and, behind the plate, a tall gilt vase and cover. |
| Current Accession Number |
1128 |
| Inscription |
front ll 'W KALF' |
| Subject |
still life |
| Measurements |
83.8 x 69.8 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by James Donald 1905. |
| Provenance |
Possibly M. T. Andreoli sale, Philippus Schley, Amsterdam, 18 July 1803, lot 24, bought by C. Menli, 8.10 guilders. |
| Principal Exhibitions |
Dutch Pictures 1450-1700, Royal Academy, London, 1952/3, cat. no. 560; Il Seicento Europeo, Rome, 1956/7, cat. no. 146; Glasgow, 1973, cat. no. 92; The Irresistible Object: Still Life 1600-1985, Leeds, 1985, cat. no. 11. |
| Publications |
.Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 78, no. 1128, II, p. 57; Grisebach, L, Willem Kalf, Berlin, 1974, pp. 156-157, 250, no. 88, fig. 96, as c. 1656-58; The Irresistible Object: Still Life 1600-1985, Leeds, 1985, pp. 7, 16, 17, no. 11; Keyes, G. S., et al., Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2004, p. 128, no. 51, n. 4, as c. 1660. |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Robert Wenley |
