PEETERS, CLARA

PEETERS, CLARA

(circa 1590 Antwerp circa 1659)

Still life with cat, fish, oysters and crayfish.

Oil on panel.

Signed lower left: Clara. P.

34 x 48 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection of H. B. Leipzig.
- Hecht auction, 27.2.1928, Lot 118.
- Art dealers D. A. Hoogendijk & Co., Amsterdam, 1932.
- Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 6.5.1996, Lot 9.
- Sotheby's, London, 24.4.2008, Lot 31.
- Private collection.
- Sotheby's, New York, 26.1.2011, Lot 292.
- European private collection.

Literature:
Hibbs Decoteau, Pamela: Clara Peeters 1594-ca.1640 And the Development of Still-Life painting in Northern Europe, Lingen 1992, p. 181, fig. 26, p. 39.

The painting is registered at RKD, The Hague as by the hand of Clara Peeters.