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Willem Kalf Works Online
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Original works by Willem Kalf available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Willem Kalf at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Dessert, 1653-54
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Still Life with Ewer, Vessels and Pomegranate, 1645
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery, London, UK
Still Life with Drinking Horn
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Still Life, ca.1660
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (in German) 
Information about a 2007 exhibition
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Nature morte à la gourde renversée
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Still life with glasses and fruit
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Peasant Interior with Woman at a Well, ca.1642-43
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Dorotheum Auctions, Vienna - Notable Past Sales
See the text link to a high-resolution image
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
Still Life with Silver Jug (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Willem Kalf at The Art Renewal Center
Willem Kalf in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Willem Kalf at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Willem Kalf 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
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