A still-life painting long kept in storage at Norway’s National Museum has been reattributed to the Flemish baroque artist Clara Peeters, an early pioneer of the genre. Previously thought to be by Ambrosius Brueghel and later labelled anonymous, the work’s reassessment restores it to a significant female artist and will feature in a major exhibition of women painters.

Curator Cynthia Osiecki linked the c1620 painting to Peeters through its panel supplier, a distinctive gilded tazza and similarities in the arrangement of birds, grapes and hazelnuts. Although no signature survives, woodworm damage removed the lower edge where Peeters typically signed; possible miniature reflected figures on the grapes may also relate to her known self-portrait technique. The painting, Still Life with Small Game and Grapes on a Gilded Tazza, will appear in Woman Painter, opening in Oslo on 8 October, alongside works by 18 other artists.