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De kunst van Clara Peeters
Clara Peeters was een van de weinige vrouwelijke kunstschilders én een van de pioniers in de ontwikkeling van het stilleven als genre in de vroege 17de eeuw. Slechts een 40-tal schilderijen zijn aan haar toegeschreven. Haar stillevens zijn een lust voor het oog, maar wat is de diepere betekenis van die stillevens? Welke waarde had Chinees porselein voor een burger uit 1610? Waarom combineerde ze een artisjok met andere lekkernijen en exquise voorwerpen? De tentoonstelling Clara Peeters. Aan tafel! en de begeleidende catalogus proberen een antwoord te formuleren op deze en andere vragen die het soms enigmatische werk van de kunstenares oproept.
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Published January 1, 2016
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October 31, 2024
Catalogue published for the exhibition held in Museum Rockoxhuis in Antwerp in 2016, which later moved to the Prado in Madrid (from October 2016 tot February 2017).
The exhibition held 15 paintings by Clara Peeters, of whom about 40 works are known. Peeters is an exceptional talent, working in the early 17th century. She masterfully evokes still-life paintings with a very high degree of realism.
I was godsmacked when I recently saw a still-life of hers in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and sought out a publication on her. This was the only one available. In 1992 Pamela Hibbs Decoteau published another monograph, which appears to be the standard work on Peeters, but it's OOP.
Alejandro Vergara en Anne Lenders texts are well-documented, insightfull and interesting. There is a fair amount of repetition, due to the fact that they approach every text accompanying the 15 paintings as one that can be read as a stand-alone.
The print quality of the illustrations is generally very good.
I do think the book would have benefited tremendously from an inclusion of a list of all know Peeters' paintings, including their whereabouts and a small illustration too. That would have added only a small number of pages, and I'm guessing for an institute like the Prado getting the rights on the images shouldn't be that hard. The fact that the Decoteau is OOP such an inclusion would have been a nice service to any fan of Peeters, and, most importantly, it would have further contextualized the 15 paintings of the exhibition.
Luckily, there's a list online on the site of the RKD.
Click here for a list of all my art book reviews.
The exhibition held 15 paintings by Clara Peeters, of whom about 40 works are known. Peeters is an exceptional talent, working in the early 17th century. She masterfully evokes still-life paintings with a very high degree of realism.
I was godsmacked when I recently saw a still-life of hers in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and sought out a publication on her. This was the only one available. In 1992 Pamela Hibbs Decoteau published another monograph, which appears to be the standard work on Peeters, but it's OOP.
Alejandro Vergara en Anne Lenders texts are well-documented, insightfull and interesting. There is a fair amount of repetition, due to the fact that they approach every text accompanying the 15 paintings as one that can be read as a stand-alone.
The print quality of the illustrations is generally very good.
I do think the book would have benefited tremendously from an inclusion of a list of all know Peeters' paintings, including their whereabouts and a small illustration too. That would have added only a small number of pages, and I'm guessing for an institute like the Prado getting the rights on the images shouldn't be that hard. The fact that the Decoteau is OOP such an inclusion would have been a nice service to any fan of Peeters, and, most importantly, it would have further contextualized the 15 paintings of the exhibition.
Luckily, there's a list online on the site of the RKD.
Click here for a list of all my art book reviews.
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