Buried for not being Brueghel: overlooked masterpiece by still-life pioneer discovered in storage area

Per The Guardian, a curator at Norway's National Museum discovered an unattributed still-life painting in storage and recognized it as a work by Clara Peeters, a seventeenth-century Flemish painter and one of the earliest masters of the still-life genre. The museum is now featuring the rediscovered work in a major exhibition of female artists. Peeters' paintings hang in the Prado in Madrid, the Ashmolean in Oxford, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

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