The Metropolitan Museum of Art Peeters Bouquet of Flowers Tea Towel

Gifts for art lovers, inspired by The Met collection. Lend a touch of drama to your kitchen with our tea towel featuring an ambitious arrangement painted by the remarkable Clara Peeters (Flemish, ca. 1587-after 1636). A Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1612), housed at The Met, showcases the artist's keen eye for detail-in the way of reflective dewdrops, little insect bites, and drooping petals evocative of transience and decay-and reveals the close connection between botanical illustration and still-life painting, both of which became popular during the Scientific Revolution. Peeters was a founding figure in the history of European still-life painting, an especially attractive genre to women artists who weren't permitted to study nude models.