The Art of Clara Peeters

The Art of Clara Peeters
Museo Nacional del Prado 10/25/2016 - 2/19/2017

Having previously been seen in Antwerp, the Museo del Prado is now showing the The Art of Clara Peeters, an exhibition on this female painter who formed part of the first generation of European artists to specialise in still-life painting and was among the very few women to devote her professional activities to painting in early modern Europe.

The presence at the Prado of this group of fifteen major works by Peeters will emphasise the achievements of this highly gifted and exquisite artist, whose known surviving oeuvre numbers barely 40 paintings.

Both the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue reflect the most recent scholarship on the artist’s life and work, locating Clara Peeters in the cultural and artistic context of Antwerp and also drawing attention to the situation of women artists on the threshold of the modern era when their opportunities were hindered by widespread prejudices.

Curator: Alejandro Vergara