Clara peeters self-portrait
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Clara Peeters
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5 Fast Facts: Clara Peeters
Blog Category: 5 Fast Facts
November 17, 2021
11/17/21
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Clara Peeters (ca. 1587–after 1636), whose work is in NMWA’s collection.
1. Child Protégée?
Though a baptismal record indicates someone named Clara Peeters was born in 1594, many scholars doubt this could be the painter as it would mean she was just 12 or 13 years old while painting her earliest dated work (1607). They claim Peeters was born between 1588 and 1590, making her 17 or 18 years old at the time.
2. Still Life as a Way of Life
A trailblazer, Peeters was the first still life painter to prominently feature fruits of the sea and spoils of the aristocratic hunt. Women were forbidden from drawing live, male nude models—this likely contributed to Peeters’s choice of subject matter.
3. Painting Herself Into History
Peeters included at least eight miniature self-portraits in her still lifes, typically found in reflections on silver goblets and pewter jugs. These hidden tre
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Clara Peeters
Dutch artist
Not to be confused with Clara Peters.
Clara Peeters (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈklaːraːˈpeːtərs]; fl. 1607–1621) was a Flemishstill-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.[1]
Peeters is the best-known female Flemish artist of this era and one of the few women artists working professionally in seventeenth-century Europe, despite restrictions on women's access to artistic training and membership in guilds.[2][3] Peeters specialized in still-life paintings with food and was prominent among the artists who shaped the traditions of the Netherlandish ontbijtjes, "breakfast pieces," scenes of food and simple vessels, and banketjes, "banquet pieces" with expensive cups and vessels in precious metals.[4]
Life
Details of Peeters' life are unclear. It is generally agreed by scholars that her work points to her being a native of Antwerp. The city of Antwerp's archives hold a record of a Clara Peeters, daughter of Jean (Jan) Peeters, baptized
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