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Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries

Clara Peeters
  • $85.00

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With still life beginning to emerge as an independent genre in the early 17th century, Clara Peeters played a pioneering role in refining the Flemish style. Paintings like Still Life with Cheese, Artichoke, and Cherries (c. 1625) represented an approach that significantly departed from the scattered and more distant layouts of other painters. Compact composition, low viewpoints, and closely clustered objects detailed with fine lines were the hallmarks of Peeters’ work. While born in Antwerp, Peeters spent much of her career in the Netherlands during the Age of Exploration. The vast expansion of Dutch trade is evident in many of Peeters’ still lifes through the inclusion of foreign produce, such as artichokes and cherries, alongside the Northern European staples of cheese and butter.

The foods pictured in Still Life with Cheese, Artichoke, and Cherries are subjects Peeters returned to throughout her career. Cherries, butter pats, stacks of cheese, and halved artichokes all made recurring appearances in her paintings, perhaps evidence of a perfectionist bent (though we like to think she turned to them for tasty factor). They also represent a confluence of traditional staples and foreign produce procured via flourishing trade—artichokes (from the Mediterranean) and cherries (perhaps from the region between the Black and Caspian seas) poised alongside local dairy products. Topped in ribbed petals of butter, the tower of three cheeses takes up the most real estate in this image, but those sensual, exposed layers of artichoke leaves and gleaming red cherries are perhaps the most enticing elements for the eye, as visually delectable as their counterparts would have been creamy. It’s a reminder, then, of the magic of multiculturalism through a culinary filter. And of course there’s a hunk of bread and a small heap of salt for good measure. No elaborate feast here. This is a celebration of simple, fresh, beautiful food, rendered in reverent detail by Peeters’ precise hand ... Read more on the blog! 

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

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Edition Structure:
8"x10" | edition of 10
11"x14" | edition of 200
16"x20" | edition of 25
20"x24" | edition of 10
30"x40" | edition of 5

Artist - Clara Peeters

Clara Peeters

While few details are known about Flemish painter Clara Peeters’ life, her work had immense influence on the trajectory of still life painting as an independent genre. Born in Antwerp in the late 16th century, Peeters was one of the few women artists to work professionally in the early 1600s, largely due to sweeping restrictions on women’s access and membership to artistic training and guilds. Despite this, her distinct style of close-up compositions and low vantage points were so influential, it is believed she may have headed a small school of her own. While official documentation of her training and career may be limited, Peeters’ inserted herself into the history books with subtle self references within her work in the form of self-portraits reflected in mirrored surfaces or a treat or two shaped carefully into her initials.

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