"Still Life with Flowers" notebook

Lined paper. Stapled binding. A5 (15 x 21 cm). 32 sheets (64 pages).

Still Life with Flowers, a Silver-gilt Goblet, Dried Fruit, Sweetmeats, Bread sticks, Wine and a Pewter Pitcher (1611) is one of the works by Clara Peeters that the Museo Nacional del Prado has in its collection. Almost all of her works are still lifes, a result of the limitations imposed by the culture of the time on women artists, but it also demonstrates her enterprising spirit. In the gilt cup and pewter jug on the cover of this practical notebook, the artist painted her self-portrait. The abundance of these in Peeters' paintings is a form of affirmation, perhaps explained by the fact that she was a woman in a male-dominated profession.