PEETERS, Clara
(b. ca. 1584, Antwerpen, d. ca. 1657, Antwerpen)

Still-Life

1627-29
Oil on panel, 41 x 58 cm
Private collection

This painting depicts slices of butter on a Wanli 'Kraak' porcelain dish, a stack of cheese on a pewter plate, with a jug, a façon-de-Venise wineglass, a bun, crayfish on a pewter plate, a knife and shrimp on a table.

Comprising a carefully staged assemblage of food, the composition relates directly to a group of five pictures by the artist with almost identically constructed stacks of cheese. While none of the so called "cheesestack" compositions are dated, based on stylistic consideration they were probably created in the 1620s and early 1630s. A number of objects painted in the present canvas are repeated in other compositions by Peeters.