Buried for not being Brueghel: overlooked masterpiece by still-life pioneer discovered in storage area
Revivified … Still Life with Silver Vase by Clara Peeters, c1620, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Photograph: Børre Høstland/The National MuseumView image in fullscreenRevivified … Still Life with Silver Vase by Clara Peeters, c1620, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. And so thought Cynthia Osiecki one day in 2022, when she chanced on an unattributed still life in the storage area of the National Museum of Norway in Oslo.Osiecki had been studying the work of a renowned 17th-century Flemish artist, Clara Peeters, one of the earliest practitioners of still life painting.
- ▪Revivified … Still Life with Silver Vase by Clara Peeters, c1620, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo.
- ▪Photograph: Børre Høstland/The National MuseumView image in fullscreenRevivified … Still Life with Silver Vase by Clara Peeters, c1620, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo.
- ▪And so thought Cynthia Osiecki one day in 2022, when she chanced on an unattributed still life in the storage area of the National Museum of Norway in Oslo.Osiecki had been studying the work of a renowned 17th-century Flemish artist, Clara
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Revivified … Still Life with Silver Vase by Clara Peeters, c1620, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Photograph: Børre Høstland/The National MuseumView image in fullscreenRevivified … Still Life with Silver Vase by Clara Peeters, c1620, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Photograph: Børre Høstland/The National MuseumArtBuried for not being Brueghel: overlooked masterpiece by still-life pioneer discovered in storage areaThe curator of Norway’s national museum in Oslo stumbled upon is bringing the work by the Flemish baroque artist Clara Peeters out of obscurity in a major exhibition of female artistsJoanna MoorheadFri 7 Aug 2026 04.51 EDTLast modified on Fri 7 Aug 2026 04.53 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleAnonymous was often a woman: so said Virginia Woolf.
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