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Oslo Museum Curator Attributes Forgotten Still Life to Flemish Old Master Clara Peeters
['Leigh Anne Miller']
ARTnews.com
Maybe because too many of their masterpieces were dismissively shoved into storage for not having been painted by a more famous man.
That, at least, seems to be what befell a still life by the 17th-century Flemish painter Clara Peeters.
Still Life with Small Game and Grapes on a Gilded Tazza, ca.
But, according to the Guardian, that attribution was rescinded in the early 20th century, leaving the still life in “anonymous” limbo ever since.
Cynthia Osiecki, a curator at the National Museum of Norway in Oslo, came across Still Life with Small Game and Grapes on a Gilded Tazza in the museum’s storage area several years ago.