A Kitchen Corner

ca. between 1642 and 1644

Willem Kalf Dutch, 1619-1693

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title A Kitchen Corner

Artwork Date ca. between 1642 and 1644

Artist Willem Kalf

Life Dates 1619-1693

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on wood panel (possibly conifer wood)

Dimensions Unframed: 10 1/4 × 9 3/8 inches (26 × 23.8 cm) Framed: 16 3/8 × 15 5/8 × 2 1/8 inches (41.6 × 39.7 × 5.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walker in memory of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 69.358

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Provenance

Jacques Augustin de Silvestre, drawing master to the royal family;
February 28-March 1811, sold by (Regnault, Paris, France) auction Silvestre, lot 38 [sold with Grisebach, no. 28, for 167 frs.];
Mr. Lavallée, Secretary General for French Museums (Paris, France)
March 9, 1818, sold by (Paillet & Bénard, Paris, France) auction Levalée, lot 8 [sold with Grisebach no. 28, for 200 frs.];
May 7, 1895, sold by (Lepke, Berlin, Germany) [as Kupferkessel und Gemüse bei einem Küchenschranke, im Hintergrund Köchin einen Korb tragend];
April 25, 1904, sold by (Helbing, probably Munich, Germany) lot 60, possibly cat. 28;
1935, (Arnold, Seligman, Rey and Co., New York, New York, USA);
by 1964, E. Raymond Field (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1964, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Regnault-Delalande, F.L. Regnault. Catalogue Raisonné d'Objets d'Arts du Cabinet de Feu M. De Silvestre. Paris, 1810, p. 9.

Catalogue des Tableaux Provenant du Cabinet de M. Lavallêe. Sales cat., Charles Paillet. Paris, March 9, 1818, p. 7, no. 8.

Katalog von Oelgemälden und Aquarellen hervorrangender alter und neuer Meister sowie von Antiken Kunstsachen...Aus den Hinterlassenschaften: des Stadtrichter Friedländer zu Breslau, eines bekannten hiesigen Sammlers, des Münchener Malers Christian Morgenstern und ein Theil der Sammlung Adam Gottlieb Thiermann. Sales cat., Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus. Berlin, 1895, p. 88, no. 305.

Grisebach, Lucius. Willem Kalf, 1619-1693. Berlin, 1974, pp. 222-223, cat. 29, (pl. 31).

Broos, B. Great Dutch Paintings from America. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Hague and San Francisco, 1990, p. 312, (fig. 1) [cited under cat. 37].

Still-Life Painting from the Netherlands 1550-1720. Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum and Cleveland Museum of Art. Amsterdam and Cleveland, 1999, pp. 210-212, cat. 47 (ill.).

Keyes, George S., et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 126-127, no. 50 (ill.).

Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, et al. Poughkeepsie, 2005, pp. 162-163, cat. 25 (ill.).

Koopstra, Anna. "De Antwerpse 'witter ende paneelmaker' Melchior de Bout (werkzaam 1625/26–1658): leverancier van 'ready-made' panelen voor de Parijse markt." Oud Holland 123, no. 2 (2010): pp. 108-124; pp. 111-112 (ill.).

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Willem Kalf, A Kitchen Corner, ca. between 1642 and 1644, oil on wood panel (possibly conifer wood). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Walker in memory of Robert H. Tannahill, 69.358.