A Clara Peeters for the Mauritshuis

Guest post by Quentin Buvelot, Senior Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands In 2012, the Mauritshuis in The Hague managed to acquire a particularly appealing painting by Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels (Fig. 1). Fig. 1,...

Gesina ter Borch: Artist, Not Amateur

Guest post by Nicole E. Cook, Project Coordinator for Academic Partnerships, Philadelphia Museum of Art Gesina ter Borch, Self-Portrait in a Cartouche Crowned with the arms of the Ter Borch family, 1659, with a poem by J.H. Roldanus. Source: Rijksmuseum Getting...