Long-Misattributed Clara Peeters Still Life Resurfaces After Decades in Storage
Formerly attributed to the Brueghel family, the painting was found in 2022 by a curator at the National Museum of Norway.
A 17th-century still life that had gathered dust for decades in storage at the National Museum of Norway is set to resurface in a forthcoming exhibition, where it will be publicly attributed to the Flemish painter Clara Peeters for the first time.
Opening October 8, Woman Painter brings "Still Life with small game and grapes on a gilded tazza" (c. 1620) together with the works of 18 other influential yet sometimes overlooked women artists.
Originally attributed to Ambrosius Brueghel, the son of the famed Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, the still life was acquired by the Oslo museum as a prized possession in 1845. According to curator Cynthia Osiecki, the painting was shipped off to storage after experts retracted the Brueghel attribution in the early 20th century.
