# BOEL, Pieter

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## Artist

- Lifespan: 1622–1674
- Profession: painter
- School: Flemish

## Biography

Flemish painter. He probably went to Italy in 1650-51 and then became a master of the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp. In 1668 he worked for Charles Le Brun at his Parisian tapestry workshop, as well as being a court painter \(&#39;peintre ordinaire du roi&#39;\). Among other things he painted animals in the style of Fyt, as well as vanitas still-lifes.

## Related artworks

- [Hounds Assailing a Boar](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/hounds-assailing-a-boar-ra9cb1c5b630807>)
- [Hunting Still-Life with Dogs and a Dead Swan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/hunting-still-life-with-dogs-and-a-dead-swan-rdd66a90b304e2c>)
- [Large Vanitas Still-Life \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/large-vanitas-still-life-detail-rbed74d99865ab9>)
- [Large Vanitas Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/large-vanitas-still-life-r7c5736936ad325>)
- [Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/still-life-r87057a10454de1>)
- [Still-Life with Dead Wild-Duck](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/still-life-with-dead-wild-duck-r36d5e0712ce52a>)
- [Still-Life with Owl](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/still-life-with-owl-reee6dcbef6c7d4>)
- [Studies of a Fox](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boel-pieter-r315303b800ce40/studies-of-a-fox-rb93a2e41e1b979>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)