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 Tobacco Pipes and a Brazier dfg 1636
Oil on wood, 49 c 63,5 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
