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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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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