Alejandro Vergara, curator of northern European paintings at the Prado Museum in Madrid, stands in front of several works by 17th century Flemish artist Clara Peeters. She is the first woman to receive her own exhibition at the nearly 200-year-old museum.
Consider Clara Peeters. Or rather, since little is known about the Flemish painter, consider her work: some 40 exquisite still lifes dating from the early 17th century.
Peeters painted herself into some of these pictures, faintly reflected in a polished pewter flagon or gilded goblet and we
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Andrew Hill, Financial Times
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