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Interior of a Dutch Kitchen, after Willem Kalf, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

After Willem Kalf Dutch
1871
Not on view
The murky darkness of Kalf’s "Interior of a Kitchen" (71.69) posed a challenge to Jacquemart, who made this etching after it for a portfolio of prints celebrating the founding collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his review of the plate, the British critic Philip Gilbert Hamerton called it "one of the cleverest in the whole set" and noted the care the etcher had taken to "make things clear just to the degree which the painter intended, and no further." Today the print reveals more of the composition than is visible in the painting, which has likely darkened over time.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Interior of a Dutch Kitchen, after Willem Kalf, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
  • Series/Portfolio: Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York
  • Artist: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French, Paris 1837–1880 Paris)
  • Artist: After Willem Kalf (Dutch, Rotterdam 1619–1693 Amsterdam)
  • Publisher: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.
  • Date: 1871
  • Medium: Etching; second state of three (Gonse)
  • Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 13 3/4 × 13 3/8 in. (35 × 34 cm)
    Plate: 6 5/16 × 7 5/16 in. (16 × 18.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings
  • Object Number: 19.59.5
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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