Willem Kalf (1619-1693),

• Kalf was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes.
• Willem Kalf was born in Rotterdam, in 1619.
• Kalf was born into a prosperous patrician family in Rotterdam, where his father, a cloth merchant, held municipal posts as well.
• In the late 1630s, Willem Kalf traveled to Paris and spent time in the circle of the Flemish artists in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
• In Paris he painted mainly small-scale rustic interiors and still lifes.
• In his Paintings there is almost always a Chinese porcelain bowl, often tilted so that the fruits tumble out of it.
• Later in his life, Kalf became an art dealer and appraiser. 
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl, 1655 - 1660.
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