pintoras:Clara Peeters (Flemish, 1584 - 1657): Still Life with fish, a candle, artichokes, crab and
pintoras:Clara Peeters (Flemish, 1584 - 1657): Still Life with fish, a candle, artichokes, crab and prawns (1611) (via Museo del Prado)From the museum website:On what appears to be a wooden table or ledge we see boiled crabs and shrimp, several freshwater fish (two carp, a roach, possibly several ide, and a northern pike), a dark glass goblet, a brass candlestick with a partially burnt but flameless candle, a copper strainer with a brass skimmer and two artichokes, and a Rhenish stoneware jug. Reflected on its lid is a self-portrait of the artist with a large headpiece. It was very rare for painters to incorporate their own image in a painting at this time. The fact that Peeters did so (in this and at least seven other paintings) shows her will to be acknowledged, probably because of the difficulties involved in being a woman artist. This is one of Peeters’s most carefully executed works. The rhythmic contrast between rounded and jagged shapes (as in the colander and the artichoke) and between patterns (in the surface decoration of the stoneware jug and the scales of the fish and holes of the colander) is characteristic of her art. -- source link