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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
far less than eternal salvation. The carefully balanced composition, rich colors, and warm tonalities make this painting an object of beauty as well as moral edification.
Historical information.
In the 1650s and '60s, as Amsterdam flourished as a hub of commerce and politics, Kalf perfected the "pronk" (display) still life to exhibit its prosperity. Using an arrangement of objects generally extremely similar to the ones in "Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar", depicted with a rich, velvety atmosphere and glistening