Roses, tulips, carnations and other flowers in a stoneware vase with ornamental relieves on a stone ledge

Although Peeters occasionally included flowers in her still-life compositions, pure flower paintings by the artist are rare, this being one of only five known signed examples. Two of those are dated 1612 and such is the stylistic proximity within the group that Professor Hibbs Decoteau (loc. cit.) dates all of the flower paintings to the same year. Unlike most of the contemporary exponents of still-life painting who depicted vases overfilled with a vast array of flowers, Peeters's pictures are characterised by their relative simplicity, with a limited number of blooms shown from a low viewpoint: thus the present arrangement consists of just twelve blooms and only five flower varieties. Peeters seems to have intimated the passage of time and, by implication, a sense of vanitas in the rose petal fallen on the table, a single petal remaining on the stem. Professor Hibbs Decoteau accepts as autograph an unsigned version of the present picture, in an Italian private collection (op. cit., no. 10A).