Still Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl
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."
Artwork Details
- Title: Still Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl
- Artist: Willem Kalf (Dutch, Rotterdam 1619–1693 Amsterdam)
- Date: 1659
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 23 x 20 in. (58.4 x 50.8 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1953
- Object Number: 53.111
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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