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Lot 43: Willem Kalf , Rotterdam 1619 - 1693 Amsterdam A peasant couple by a well with a distant view of Paris oil on oak panel

Est: £1,619 GBP - £1,693 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 09, 2008

Item Overview

Description

signed and dated centre right: KALF/ 1642 oil on oak panel

Dimensions

measurements note 29.8 by 24 cm.; 11 3/4 by 9 1/2 in.

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Literature

H.E. van Gelder, W.C. Heda, A. van Beyeren, W. Kalf (Palet series), Amsterdam 1941, reproduced p. 41;
A. Heppner, "Rotterdam as the centre of a Dutch Teniers Group", in Art in America, vol. 34, 1946, pp. 15-29, reproduced fig. 13;
L.I. Grisebach, Willem Kalf, Berlin 1974, p. 218, no. 20, reproduced fig. 22;
Voorkeuren, 1985, p. 40, reproduced;
J. Giltaij, in J.G. Giltaij, F.G. Meijer, et al., Gemaltes Licht. Die Stilleben von Willem Kalf, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 2007, p. 48, no. 4, reproduced.

Provenance

Freiherr Dr. Schwarz von Seeborn, Vienna;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Mensing, 13 July 1926, lot 737;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Mensing, 20-22 June 1928, lot 29, for 2,100 Guilders to Goudstikker;
With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1928;
S. Buchenau, Niendorf;
F. Buchenau, Solingen, 1934-1939;
With J. Böhler, Munich, 1963;
Anonymous sale, Paris, 20 March 1964, lot 39;
Dr. Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam, after 1964.

Notes

This is a characteristic work from Kalf's early Paris period, when he painted a number of still lifes of vegetables and fruit with peasants in an outdoor setting, often, as here, with a distant view of Paris.

Auction Details

Old Master Paintings Evening Sale

by
Sotheby's
July 09, 2008, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK