Pieter 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.
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Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622–1674) has 0 public-domain artworks in the Archive Lane archive, each available as a digital download or a made-to-order 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 Pieter Boel's work on the site falls under Plants & Animals (6), Still Life (5).
By movement, it's catalogued as 17th Century (1).
Culture: Belgian (11).
By orientation: 9 landscape, 2 square.
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- Jan Brueghel the Younger — 44 artworks
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