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A ~400-year-old mystery with a side of ~40-year-old beef

I always enjoy illusionistic still-life paintings, but I have a particular love for where these intersect with vanitas, entirely thanks to Wikipedia.

I was looking through Commons:Vanitas for the billionth time one day when I focused on this one:

Still-Life with crystal ball,^[ii] c. 1634, is one of several paintings in the genre to embed a self-portrait in the reflection of the ball.

The summary for the file reports^[iii] the artist to be "Follower of Pieter Claesz," while the metadata imported from Vanitas - Still-Life with crystal ball (Q19930083) reports the artist to be "Pieter Claesz" simpliciter.

Consistent with this uncertainty of authorship, the Wikidata item lists both Pieter Claesz and Clara Peeters as creator (P170).^[iv]

I'm currently reviewing those references. The trail started with the source^[iii] of the image file:

Catalogue Note
According to Fred G. Meijer the handling of this still life is not strong enough for it to be by Pieter Claesz., deeming it to lack Claesz's freshness and transparency. In his opinion it is most probably a (more or less) contemporary copy after an unknown work, of good quality. Chronologically, this composition and the date of 1634, coincides with other works of Claesz. of that time.
According to Vroom (see under Literature, Vroom 1999) this work is closely related to a Vanitas sill life in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, which is similar in composition and shows the same sphere. Vroom further suggests that both pictures were painted by the same artist, which he identifies as Clara Peeters (active 1607/8- 1641).
— Sotheby's^[1]

Excerpt from the Literature section (citations mine):

N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message as intimated by the painters of the "Monochrome Banketje", Schiedam 1999, vol. III, supplement edited by D.M. Klinger, pp. 13,^[2] 107^[3] and 113-125,^[4] reproduced p. 14, fig. 2^[5] and pp. 107-9, figs. 80, 81a and 81b^[3] (as by Clara Peeters or Pieter Claesz.).
— ibid.^[1]

The catalogue note, then, describes two people who contest Claesz having painted this: Fred G. Meijer and N.R.A. Vroom. It was relatively easy to check the Vroom statement because the notes directly cited the source, but I had to dig a little to find Meijer's writing specific to this painting, as he's written extensively on Claesz (and disputations of the latter's authorship).

In a 2007 review, Meijer wrote of a monograph on Claesz that "Vroom's erratic confusion of Claesz.'s paintings with those of Clara Peeters and François Elaut is briefly but decisively sorted out."^[6]

Meijer has much more to say about Vroom, and many of his contemporaries, but I've still yet to find other discussion of his specific to this painting!

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Notes

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- The boring part: This is actually more a matter of my leaving gender as the default "unspecified" (which you can change in Preferences § Internationalisation) as a privacy measure.
- The cool part: We can use templates like {{gender}} and {{pronoun}} to sub in whatever a user has specified! So, "I think {{gender|Spida-tarbell}} wrote a riveting footnote here" returns "I think they wrote a riveting footnote here."
^ Like many vanitas paintings,^{[citation needed]} the title for this one is inconsistent across sources.
^ ^a ^b As of December 18, 2024.^[update]^[oldid]
^ Only Claesz would be propagated as the creator in other Wikimedia projects by default, because the Creator: Clara Peeters claim has a deprecated rank. I still don't know enough about Wikidata to know how exactly that's set, but I imagine it may be because the property has no references.

Citations

^ ^a ^b "(#66) Follower of Pieter Claesz. 17th Century". Sotheby's. 2007. Archived from the original on 2024-12-19. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
^ Vroom 1999, p. 13: "there remains the rather convincing pseudo-CLAESZ Vanitas still-life with the reflecting glass sphere [...] I started my considerations asking myself if this painting might not enable me to start the rehabilitation of Clara PEETERS"
^ ^a ^b Vroom 1999, p. 107.
^ Vroom 1999, p. 113: "As my doubts about the authenticity of its Pc-monogram has now been proven to be perfectly justifiable (Fig. 81a) there are enough arguments to include still-life paintings with similar episodes in her oeuvre as well."
^ Vroom 1999, p. 14.
^ Meijer 2007, p. 136.

References

Vroom, N.R.A.; Klinger, D. M. (1999). A Modest Message (1st ed.). Nuremberg: H.B. Wilson — DMK CO. ISBN 3-923642-97-0. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
Meijer, Fred G. (2007). "Review: [Untitled]". Oud Holland. 120 (1/2). JSTOR 42712231.

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[fn1-1] 
The boring part: This is actually more a matter of my leaving gender as the default "unspecified" (which you can change in Preferences § Internationalisation) as a privacy measure.
The cool part: We can use templates like {{gender}} and {{pronoun}} to sub in whatever a user has specified! So, "I think {{gender|Spida-tarbell}} wrote a riveting footnote here" returns "I think they wrote a riveting footnote here."

[2] The boring part: This is actually more a matter of my leaving gender as the default "unspecified" (which you can change in Preferences § Internationalisation) as a privacy measure.

[3] The cool part: We can use templates like {{gender}} and {{pronoun}} to sub in whatever a user has specified! So, "I think {{gender|Spida-tarbell}} wrote a riveting footnote here" returns "I think they wrote a riveting footnote here."

[caption-2] Like many vanitas paintings,^{[citation needed]} the title for this one is inconsistent across sources.

[source-3] As of December 18, 2024.^[update]^[oldid]

[rank-4] Only Claesz would be propagated as the creator in other Wikimedia projects by default, because the Creator: Clara Peeters claim has a deprecated rank. I still don't know enough about Wikidata to know how exactly that's set, but I imagine it may be because the property has no references.

[sotheby-5] "(#66) Follower of Pieter Claesz. 17th Century". Sotheby's. 2007. Archived from the original on 2024-12-19. Retrieved 2024-12-17.

[0-6] Vroom 1999, p. 13: "there remains the rather convincing pseudo-CLAESZ Vanitas still-life with the reflecting glass sphere [...] I started my considerations asking myself if this painting might not enable me to start the rehabilitation of Clara PEETERS"

[FOOTNOTEVroom1999[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmodestmessageasi0000vroopage107mode1up_107]-7] Vroom 1999, p. 107.

[1-8] Vroom 1999, p. 113: "As my doubts about the authenticity of its Pc-monogram has now been proven to be perfectly justifiable (Fig. 81a) there are enough arguments to include still-life paintings with similar episodes in her oeuvre as well."

[FOOTNOTEVroom1999[httpsarchiveorgdetailsmodestmessageasi0000vroopage14mode1up_14]-9] Vroom 1999, p. 14.

[FOOTNOTEMeijer2007136-10] Meijer 2007, p. 136.

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