Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels — About This Work
Clara Peeters, c. 1615
About the Work
Clara Peeters sets a table with cheeses, pretzels, almonds, dried fruit, butter and costly tableware, turning a compact meal into a display of surfaces, textures and careful observation. The pale cheeses and blue-and-white dish emerge against a dark ground, while glass, metal and glazed ceramic catch small points of light.
The painting also carries unusually personal marks of authorship. Peeters signed the decorated bridal knife at the front of the table, and the pewter lid of the earthenware jug contains a tiny reflected female face that the Mauritshuis identifies as the painter herself. These details reward close looking without disturbing the stillness of the arrangement.
At its recorded size of 49.5 × 34.5 cm, the work remains intimate despite the abundance it depicts. Palatine reproduces the complete image at that scale, preserving the compact relationship between the food, vessels and surrounding darkness rather than enlarging the composition into a decorative format.
The Work
Artist: Clara Peeters
Title: Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels
Date: c. 1615
Medium: Oil on panel
Recorded dimensions: 49.5 × 34.5 cm (W × H)
Collection: Mauritshuis, The Hague
Accession number: 1203
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 60 × 40 cm Classic Frame.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Mauritshuis, The Hague; exact file via Wikimedia Commons.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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