Description

CLARA PEETERS
(ANTWERP ?1589-AFTER 1657)
A stack of cheese on a pewter platter, with butter on a plate, a stoneware jug, bread, pretzels, wine in a façon-de-Venise glass and a knife, on a ledge
oil on panel
18 ¼ x 25 ½ in. (46.1 x 64.8 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Nelson Vandevoort Judah, Los Angeles (according to RKD records).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 8 May 1974, lot 105.
with Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd, London, 1975.
with K. & V. Waterman, Amsterdam, 1981.
Private collection, Kiel, and by descent to the following,
Private collection, Hamburg.
Anonymous sale; Stahl, Hamburg, 28 April 2018, lot 16, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

A. Sutherland Harris and L. Nochlin, Women Artists 1550-1950, Los Angeles, 1976, p. 133, no. 18, illustrated.
C. Grimm and I. Bergström, et al., Natura in posa: La grande stagione della natura morta in Europa, Milan, 1977, p. 206, illustrated.
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the Painters of the Monochrome Banketje, II, Schiedam, 1980, p. 103, no. 516.
‘Waterman Advertisement’, Tableau, January-February 1981, p. 492.
P. Hibbs Decoteau, Clara Peeters, 1594-ca. 1640, and the development of still-life painting in northern Europe, Lingen, 1992, pp. 47, 58, fig. 43, as ‘Circle of Peeters’.
C.C. Barko, ‘Rediscovering Female Voice and Authority: The Revival of Female Artists in Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles”‘, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, XXIX, no. 1, pp. 125-6 and 137.

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Austin, University of Texas Art Museum; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; and New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Women Artists 1550-1950, 21 December 1976-27 November 1977, no. 18.