LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
40.59 in. (103.10 cm.) (height) by 31.89 in. (81.00 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed and dated lower left: W KALF 1644
Exhibited:
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long term loan.
Literature:
Anon., 'Pictures and Articles of Curiosity', in Inventory of the Contents of Warwick Castle, Warwickshire Record Office CR1886/466), Ms., circa 1800, hanging in the Compass window; Anon., Inventory of the Contents of Warwick Castle, Ms., 1806, in the Compass Room Window;; W. Field, An Historical and Descriptive Account of Leamington Spa, Warwick 1815, p. 104 ('Still life, by Kalf'), in the Compass window;; Possibly S. Woodburne, Notes on the Paintings at Warwick Castle, 1832, no. 106 ('Ewer and plates etc – Flemish School'), in the Compass Room;; H. T. Cooke, An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle…, Warwick 1847, p. 73, in the Chapel Passage;; Cooper’s, History of Warwick and Guide to the Castle, illustrated, 1850, p. 107;; W. Kendall, Inventory of Warwick Castle, Ms., 1853, in the Passage and Staircase Landing;; Anon, Inventory of Warwick Castle, Ms., circa 1860, in the Passage and Staircase Landing;; W. von Bode, Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei, Brunswick 1883, p. 229–30;; W. von Bode, Die Meister der holländischen und flämischen Malerschulen, Leipzig 1917, p. 295, 1953 edition (ed. E. Plietszch) p. 383;; I. Bergström, Dutch Still-Life Painting in the Seventeenth Century, New York 1983, p. 277, reproduced fig. 222;; L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf 1619–1693, Berlin 1974, p. 240, no. 70, reproduced fig. 71;; J. Giltaij, in Gemaltes Licht. Die Stilleben von Willem Kalf, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam/Aachen 2006–07, p. 92, under cat. no. 21.
Provenance:
Chiquet de Champ-Renard, Secrétaire du Roi; His sale, Paris, Joullain fils, 14 March 1768, lot 48 ('Un tableau peint sur toile par Kalf, en 1644, représentant des Flacons, un Vase d'or & des Huitres, à côté d'une Serviette; de 38 p. de haut sur 30 p. de large');; George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746–1816), by 1806;; Thence by descent.