Clara Peeters
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Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.
Possible self-portrait of Peeters, in vanitas style, c. 1610
Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, c. 1615, with the "signed knife", and a reflection of the painter on the rim of the jug lid. Bought by the Mauritshuis in 2012.
Still Life, 1607, signed "CLARA P 1607", also with a P-shaped pretzel
Still Life with Flowers and Gold Cups of Honor, 1612, with reflections of the artist on the bosses of the cup at right
Vanitas
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Vanitas is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the uselessness of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires. The paintings i
Clara Peeters
…one is found listed in a collection from 1627, while another is listed in a document of a notary in 1628. In July 2025 a presumed self-portrait, with a vanitas still life and flowers in a glass vase (c. 1610) from the collection Baron and Baronne Bertrand de Gieywas, was offered for sale at Sotheby's, with a…
Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda
Vanitas by Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder (1524) with the text "Omnia morte cadunt, mors ultima linia rerum" included