Still life with a Gilded Beer Tankard, Willem Claesz Heda, 1634

Title(s)

Still life with a Gilded Beer Tankard

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-137

Inscriptions / marks

• signature and date, lower right: ‘HEDA . / 1634’
• signature, below that (falsely): ‘Johan d. Heem. ƒ. 1640’

Description

Stilleven met een omgevallen zilveren drinkschaal, een roemer met wijn, een beker met deksel en tinnen borden met een geschilde citroen.

Artist

• painter: Willem Claesz Heda (signed by artist)

Dating

1634

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

support: height 45.5 cm × width 62.1 cm
outer size: depth 8.5 cm (support incl. frame)

What

• laid table as still life
• fruits: lemon
• glass of wine

Acquisition

purchase 1809

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch art : masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, Reinier J. Baarsen, Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis, Lynn Federle Orr, Thomas Padon, Ruud Priem, Marijn Schapelhouman, J.P. Sigmond, p. 58-59
• Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 189
• Dutch masters from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, p. 24-25
• The Golden Age of Dutch art : seventeenth century paintings from the Rijksmuseum and Australian collections, Norbert E. Middelkoop
• Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhundert, cat.nr. 157-158
• A prosperous past : the sumptuous still life in the Netherlands, William B. Jordan, Sam Segal, p. 126, 137, cat.nr. 32
• A modest message as intimated by the painters of the "Monochrome banketje", Nicolaas Rudolf Alexander Vroom, p. 54, fig. 67, cat.nr. 341
• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 262
• De schilders van het monochrome banketje, p. 58
• Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 407