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Still Life with Silver-gilt Tazza

Clara Peeters (active 1607–1621) was a Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.

 

Still Life with Flowers and Gold Cups of Honor, 1612, with reflections of the artist on the bosses of the cup at right
Still Life with Nuts, Candy and Flowers, 1611, with the artist reflected several times in the metal pieces
Still Life, 1607, signed "CLARA P 1607", also with a P-shaped pretzel

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.

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