Artist
Pieter Boel
Flemish, 1622–1674
Pieter Boel was a Flemish Flemish Baroque painting painter. 13 works are cataloged here, principally at Bavarian State Painting Collections, most of them oil paintings. Pieter Boel was born in Antwerp.
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.
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