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

The curator of Norway’s national museum in Oslo is bringing the work by the Flemish baroque artist Clara Peeters out of obscurity in a major exhibition of female artists Anonymous was often a woman: so said Virginia Woolf.

And so thought Cynthia Osiecki one day in 2022, when she chanced on an unattributed still life in the storage area of the National Museum of Norway in Oslo.

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