A Bouquet of Flowers
Clara Peeters
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
A Bouquet of Flowers by Clara Peeters (ca. 1612) stands as a remarkable testament to the golden age of Flemish still-life painting. Peeters, one of the most accomplished female artists of the seventeenth century, composed this intimate floral arrangement with extraordinary technical precision on a wood panel, deploying oil paint to render each petal, dewdrop, and leaf with breathtaking verisimilitude. The small format — characteristic of Peeters's work — belies the astonishing density of detail contained within it.
The bouquet itself is a deliberate assembly of flowers from different seasons, a convention known as florilège, signaling both the painter's virtuosity and the symbolic language of Vanitas: the transience of beauty, the inevitability of decay. Roses, tulips, and other blooms coexist in a timeless moment that nature would never actually permit, transforming the painting into an allegory as much as a celebration of the natural world. Now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this work exemplifies the refined sensibility of early Baroque still life.
This museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch wooden frame with a classic gallery wrap finish — ready to hang and built to last, bringing centuries of artistic mastery directly to your walls.
| Artist | Clara Peeters |
| Year | ca. 1612 |
| Medium | Oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 18 1/8 × 12 5/8 in. (46 × 32 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
