Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar [SEP] collection
Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar
Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar is a 1669 oil painting by Dutch artist Willem Kalf, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is a sumptuous still life displaying the sort of costly wares that flowed through the Netherlands during its heyday as a trade center.
Description.
In "Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar", Kalf selected an array of precious objects with which to showcase the wealth and refinement of the Netherlands and
of art to the Herron museum included eight paintings that formed the core of The Marmon Memorial Collection, named in honor of her parents. The artworks included Hobbema's "The Water Mill (The Trevor Landscape)"; Corneille's "Portrait of a Man with a Glove"; Cuyp's "The Valkhof at Nijmegen"; Ruisdael's "Landscape with Cascade"; Van Gogh's "Landscape at Saint-Remy (Enclosed Field with Peasant) "; Kalf's "Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar";