Property from the Collection of Dr. Hinrich Bischoff
Willem Kalf
Still Life with Fruit, a Silver Bowl, and a Peeled Lemon in a Roemer, on a Stone Tabletop Draped with Green Velvet
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of Dr. Hinrich Bischoff
Willem Kalf
Rotterdam 1619 - 1693 Amsterdam
Still Life with Fruit, a Silver Bowl, and a Peeled Lemon in a Roemer, on a Stone Tabletop Draped with Green Velvet
signed and dated lower right on table edge: W. Kalf 1658
oil on canvas
canvas: 18 ⅝ by 23 in.; 47.3 by 58.4 cm
framed: 27 ½ by 31 ¾ in.; 69.9 by 88.3 cm
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, by 1870 and until at least 1916 (inv. no. 1369);
Dr. Cornelis Johannes Karel van Aalst (1866–1939), Hoevelaken, by 1939;
Thence by descent to Nicolaas Johannes van Aalst, Breda, until 1973;
With Galerie Hans M. Cramer, The Hague, 1973-1980;
Acquired by Dr. Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), circa 1980;
Thence by inheritance.
Delft, Prinsenhof Museum, 26th Art Fair, Autumn 1974;
Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Stilleben in Europa, 25 November 1979 – 15 June 1980, no. 266 (lent by Galerie Cramer, The Hague);
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Zeldzaam Zilver uit de Gouden Eeuw: De Utrechtse edelsmeden Van Vianen, 14 December 1984 – 10 February 1985, no. 117 (lent by a private collection, West Germany);
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, long-term loan, 1985-2024 (inv. no. Dep. 490).
G.F. Waagen, Die Gemäldesammlung in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage zu St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg 1870, p. 274;
Ermitage Impérial: Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux (deuxième édition), Saint Petersburg 1885, vol. II, p. 331, cat. no. 1369;
A. Somof, Ermitage Impérial: Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux (troisième édition), Saint Petersburg 1895, vol. II, p. 165, cat. no. 1369;
A. Somof, Ermitage Impérial: Catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux, Saint Petersburg 1901, vol. II, p. 188, 510, cat. no. 1369;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. I, Vienna/Leipzig 1906, p. 234;
J.W. von Moltke, Dutch and Flemish Old Masters in the Collection of Dr. C.J.K. Van Aalst, Huis-te-Hoevelaken, Holland, Verona 1939, p. 178, reproduced pl. XLII;
U. Thieme and P. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. XIX, Leipzig 1926, p. 465;
L. Grisebach, Willem Kalf, 1619-1693, Berlin 1974, p. 252, under cat. no. 91 (as a copy after a painting in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, inv. no. 77);
Art: das Kunstmagazin 1, (January 1980), p. 51, reproduced;
G. Langemeyer and H.A. Peters, Stilleben in Europa, exhibition catalogue, Münster 1979, pp. 509-510, cat. no. 266, reproduced;
Zeldzaam Zilver uit de Gouden Eeuw: De Utrechtse edelsmeden Van Vianen, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht 1984, p. 117, cat. no. 117, reproduced;
E. Mai, "KÖLN, WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-MUSEUM," in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 45 (1984), p. 363 (with an image of a different painting erroneously reproduced);
C. Heße and M. Schlagenhaufer, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln, Vollständiges Verzeichnis der Gemäldesammlung, Cologne 1986, pp. 40, 200, reproduced fig. 340;
I. Ember and I. Barkóczi, Delights for the senses: Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings from Budapest, Wausau 1989, p. 86 note 3;
R. Budde et al., Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, London 1993, p. 72, reproduced;
E. Mai, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1993, pp. 141-143, cat. no. 55, reproduced;
S. Sonntag and A. Blühm (eds.), Wallraf, Das Museum: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corboud, Cologne 2016, pp. 196, reproduced;
Baroque, Das Magazin für barockes Lebensgefühl 1 (2018), p. 39, reproduced.
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