Lot 81: WILLEM VAN ODEKERCKEN

WILLEM VAN ODEKERCKEN NIJMEGEN CIRCA 1610 - 1677 DELFT A KITCHEN MAID STANDING BY A TABLE WITH COPPER POTS, PEWTER PLATES AND OTHER OBJECTS signed with initials and dated on the table leg WVO f. 1638 (lower left) oil on panel 41 by 30 in.; 104.1 by 76.1 cm.

San Diego, CA, Orr's Gallery, Four Centuries of Story-Telling Paintings, 12 October - 10 November 1962, cat. no. 10, reproduced on the back of the brochure;
Lawrence, KS, Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Salzer Collection, Trompe L'Oeil and Still Life Paintings, A Loan Exhibition, 4 October - 1 November 1964, cat. no. 29;
Charlotte, NC, The Mint Museum of Art, The Salzer Collection, Trompe-L'Oeil and Still Life Paintings, A Loan Exhibition, 14 February - 7 March 1965, cat. no. 29;
Los Angeles, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum; Honolulu, HI, Honolulu Academy of Art; Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Reality and Deception, 16 October 1974 – 20 April 1975, cat. no. 48, reproduced.

Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection of Still Life and Trompe-L'Oeil Paintings, Fresno 1984, cat. no. 31, reproduced in color.

Oscar and Maria Salzer, Los Angeles;
By whom given to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science,1983 (Acc. FMM 82.41).

Odekercken is first recorded in guild records at The Hague in 1631 as a pupil. He registered as a house painter in 1643 in Delft and was a successful house contracter there until his death. As an artist, he painted still lifes, portraits, genre scenes and kitchen maids. The present work is a particularly fine example of his kitchen maid type, demonstrating his skill as both a figure and still life painter.