Peeter Boel
ARTISTPieter Boel or Peeter Boel was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer. He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings. He moved to Paris, where he worked in the gobelin factory and became a painter to the king. Pieter Boel revolutionized animal painting by working directly from live animals in a natural setting. He thus arrived at representations of animals showing them in their natural, characteristic poses. He had many followers in France.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Pieter Boel (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Peeter Boel, wall art & digital downloads
2 works by Peeter Boel (Flemish, 1622–1674) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
Pieter Boel or Peeter Boel was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer. He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings. He moved to Paris, where he worked in the gobelin factory and became a painter to the king. Pieter Boel revolutionized animal painting by working directly from live animals in a natural setting. He thus arrived at representations of animals showing them in their natural, characteristic poses. He had many followers in France.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Peeter Boel's work on the site falls under Prints (8).
By movement, it's catalogued as Renaissance (2).
By orientation: 7 landscape, 1 portrait.
Dated work in this group ranges from 1622 to 1657.
Other Flemish artists of the period
Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:
- Anthony van Dyck — 858 artworks
- Paulus Pontius — 281 artworks
- David Teniers The Younger — 242 artworks
- Jacob Jordaens — 142 artworks
- Pieter van Bloemen — 60 artworks
- Jan Brueghel the Younger — 44 artworks
- Cornelis Schut — 41 artworks
- Michael Sweerts — 38 artworks
Prints of these artworks
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Sizes and framing
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