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DiaporamaStill Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl
1659
58.0 x 51.0 cm
Willem Kalf (1619 – 1693)
Discover Willem Kalf (1619-1693), Dutch Golden Age master of luxurious still lifes ('pronkstilleven'). Explore his opulent compositions & masterful light on ArtsDot!
The Chinese porcelain bowl and Turkish carpet in this still life would both have been luxurious imports, here nonchalantly placed with wine and fruit on a wooden table. The bowl, a lemon peel spilling over its lip, balances on a piece of bread, animating the static arrangement of the objects. According to Gerard de Lairesse, a painter and writer of the next generation, Kalf "surpassed others in still life," although "he never . . . knew how to explain his images, why he depicted this or that, but simply [painted] whatever took his fancy."
About this artwork
- Title: Still Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl
- Artist: Willem Kalf
- Year: 1659
- Original dimensions: 58.0 x 51.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Color palette: Earthy
- Perceived brightness: deep_shadow
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