Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Willem Kalf
Still life with an orange, peaches, a walnut, a silver bowl, and a peeled lemon in a roemer, all upon a stone tabletop draped with green velvet
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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff
Willem Kalf
Rotterdam 1619–1693 Amsterdam
Still life with an orange, peaches, a walnut, a silver bowl, and a peeled lemon in a roemer, all upon a stone tabletop draped with green velvet
signed and dated lower right on the table edge: W. Kalf 1658
oil on canvas
unframed: 47.3 x 50.9 cm.; 18⅝ x 20 in.
State Hermitage Museum, Saint 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 (1891–1965), 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; and 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, on long-term loan, 1985–2025 (inv. no. Dep. 490).
G.F. Waagen, Die Gemäldesammlung in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage zu St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg 1870, p. 274;
Ermitage Impérial: Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux, 2nd ed., vol. II, Saint Petersburg 1885, p. 331, no. 1369;
A. Somof, Ermitage Impérial: Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux, 3rd ed., vol. II, Saint Petersburg 1895, p. 165, no. 1369;
A. Somof, Ermitage Impérial: Catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux, vol. II, Saint Petersburg 1901, pp. 188 and 510, no. 1369;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. I, Vienna and 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 no. 91 (as a copy after a painting in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, inv. no. 77);
Art: das Kunstmagazin, vol. I, January 1980, p. 51, reproduced in colour;
J. Lammers, 'Innovation und Virtuositat', in Stilleben in Europa, G. Langemeyer and H.A. Peters (eds), exh. cat., Münster 1979, pp. 509–10, no. 266, reproduced in colour;
Zeldzaam Zilver uit de Gouden Eeuw: De Utrechtse edelsmeden Van Vianen, exh. cat., Utrecht 1984, p. 117, no. 117, reproduced;
E. Mai, 'KÖLN, WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-MUSEUM', in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, vol. 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 and 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 and n. 3;
R. Budde et al., Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, London 1993, p. 72, reproduced in colour fig. 1;
E. Mai, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, Cologne 1993, pp. 141–43, no. 55, reproduced in colour;
S. Sonntag and A. Blühm (eds), Wallraf, Das Museum: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corboud, Cologne 2016, p. 196, reproduced in colour p. 197;
Baroque, Das Magazin für barockes Lebensgefühl, vol. 1, 2018, p. 39, reproduced in colour.
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