CLAESZ, Pieter Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1597-1660
Dutch painter of German birth. He apparently spent his entire career in Haarlem, where he specialized in still-life paintings. Well over 100 works survive, dating from 1621 to 1660. Most of his pictures are dated and monogrammed PC. Since those initials were shared by the Antwerp still-life painter CLARA PEETERS Still-Life with Musical Instruments dfg 1623
Oil on canvas, 69 x 122 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
