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Dark still life with stacked cheeses, butter curls, an artichoke on a plate, red cherries and a bread roll.Flemish still life

Clara Peeters

Unknown – Unknown · Flanders (today Belgium)

Hid tiny self-portraits in shiny cups. Look closer.

Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries, c. 1625. Clara Peeters. Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons

Painting

Clara Peeters

Unknown – Unknown · Flanders (today Belgium)

One of the earliest painters of breakfast and banquet still lifes, working in Antwerp. Almost nothing is known about her life — her paintings are the main evidence she existed.

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Fact file

Born
Unknown
Died
Unknown
Country
Flanders (today Belgium)
Era
The 1600s
Style
Flemish still life
Disciplines
Painting
Key work
Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries (c. 1625)
Medium
Oil on panel
Where to see it
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

Curiosity!

Documented

In several paintings she slipped tiny reflections of her own face into the curved surfaces of goblets and pewter jugs.

What we know (and what we don’t)

  • Documented

    Dated paintings show she was active from around 1607 to 1621.

  • Not certain

    Her birth and death dates are not known.

  • Not certain

    The date of this painting is approximate.

Where to see her

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