Cupboard

Kaspar Klein German, active late 17th century
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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Cupboard

1677

Kaspar Klein

active late 17th century

German

Unknown

Walnut

Overall: 101 1/2 × 88 3/4 × 30 1/8 inches (257.8 × 225.4 × 76.5 cm)

Furniture

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Gift of K. T. Keller

58.101

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed, on small board inside upper right cupboard door above lock: Casbar Klein Meisterstuck gemacht Januar 1677

Provenance

Budesheim, Kreis Friedberg, Provinz Oberhessen, Grossherzogtum Hessen, Germany

William Randolph Hearst

Hearst Foundation

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Published References

Kunstdenkmäler im Großherzogtum Hessen. Kreis Friedberg. 1895, p. 1515, no. 16 (ill.).

Falke, O. & H. Schmitz. Deutsche Möbel vom Mittelalter bis zum Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart, 1924, vol. 2, p. 176 (ill.).

Thieme-Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler, vol. 20, Leipzig, 1927, p. 449.

DIA Handbook. 1971, p. 122.

Kreisel, H. Die Kunst des deutschen. Mobels. Munich, 1981, p. 206 (pl. 458).

Gallagher, B. "William Randolph Hearst and the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 78, 1/2 (2004): p. 54-55 (fig. 1).

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Kaspar Klein, Cupboard, 1677, walnut. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of K. T. Keller, 58.101.

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