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Peeter Boel

Artist

WA-00077304

PaintingBaroque

Representation

None documented

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ2241666

Field Verification (7 fields)

1 cross-verified · 6 single-source

Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
Birth yearWikidata· 92%
Death yearWikidata· 92%
NationalityWikidata· 92%
Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
LocationWikidata· 80%

Source Registry (2)

Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/peeter-boel
Tier 1 · Institutional85%
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Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%

About

Why this artist matters now

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.

Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Baroque

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (5)

Drie arenden strijden om een dood hert

1657 · etching on paper

width: 230 cm, height: 163 cm

Rijksmuseum

Reigers en eenden

1657 · etching on paper

height: 160 cm, width: 232 cm

Rijksmuseum

Diversi uccelli

1657 · etching on paper

height: 167 cm, width: 245 cm

Rijksmuseum

Twee uilen

1642 · etching on paper

width: 128 cm, height: 182 cm

Rijksmuseum

Roofvogels

etching on paper

width: 235 cm, height: 160 cm

Rijksmuseum

Artwork sources (2)

5 published of 6 catalogued · 5 with image

Rijksmuseum
5 published5 img
+ 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 5)

5 entries · 1 sources

Drie arenden strijden om een dood hert
1657 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Twee uilen
1642 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Roofvogels
— · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Reigers en eenden
1657 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Diversi uccelli
1657 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Movements1

Baroque

Collections1

National Gallery of Art

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National Gallery of Art

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