Pieter Boel or Peeter Boel[1] (baptized on 10 October 1622 – 3 September 1674) 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.[2]
- ^ Name variations: Peter Boel, Pieter Boel, Pierre Boel, Pietro Boel, Pieter Bol, Pierre Boul, Pierre Boule, he signed 'Peeter Boel' and Petrus Boel
- ^ Adeline Collange, 'Study of a Crowned Crane'