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| Keywords: Isabella Peeters - Vase of Flowers - Walters 371829.jpg Fresh flowers in all their fragile transient beauty and variety were not available in the winter nor could specimens be preserved as could those of animals so flower paintings drawings or colored prints were especially treasured by collectors The flamboyant sweep of the composition and emphasis on blossoms that are full to slightly past their prime mark this flower piece as from the second half of the 17th century when the baroque style touched even flower painting This is a rare signed piece by the daughter of Jan Peeters I who worked in Antwerp Only her birth date is known ca 1695 Baroque Oil on canvas cm 64 5 49 2 accession number 37 1829 13532 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Signature World of Wonder Walters Salute to Belgium place of origin Antwerp Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D World of Wonder Walters Salute to Belgium Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Isabella Peeters | ||||
