Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl

Willem Kalf

c. 1655–1660 · Oil on canvas · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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About this work

Artist: Willem Kalf (1619–1693)
Year: c. 1655–1660
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 73.8 × 65.2 cm
Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Movement: Dutch Golden Age

An ornamental silver ewer with a lid stands beside a Chinese porcelain bowl of lemons and oranges, a roemer of white wine held in a silver cup-holder, and a pocket watch, all emerging from darkness on a marble ledge draped with a carpet. Willem Kalf painted it around 1655 to 1660, soon after settling in Amsterdam, and it is a textbook example of the pronk still life, the display piece of costly objects that he made his own. He chose rare Asian wares rather than the common export porcelain of the day and sometimes invented hybrids: the Rijksmuseum notes that the decoration inside this bowl belongs to an earlier type of flat-rimmed klapmuts while the outside follows a contemporary pattern. Light on silver, glass, peel and glaze is the whole subject. The museum bought it at the sale of Albertus Jonas Brandt's collection in Amsterdam on 29 October 1821.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 12×18 and 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl in the public domain?

Yes. Willem Kalf (1619–1693) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Rijksmuseum.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl painted, and in what medium?

Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl dates from c. 1655–1660 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 73.8 × 65.2 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Willem Kalf's Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl — a silver ewer, a Chinese porcelain bowl of fruit and a glass goblet in a stone niche, painted with dark splendour — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Pronk Still Life, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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