Artist

Michaelina Wautier

Portrait of Michaelina Wautier
Portrait of Michaelina Wautier

Spanish Netherlands, 1604–1689

Michaelina Wautier was a Spanish Netherlands Flemish Baroque painting painter. 7 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthistorisches Museum, most of them oil paintings. Michaelina Wautier was born in Mons.

Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers (c. 1614–1689), was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Only since the start of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of the outstanding female artist of Flemish Baroque painting, her works having been previously attributed to male artists, especially her brother Charles. Much of the work tracking and attributing her paintings has been done by the Belgian art historian Katlijne Van der Stighelen.

Wautier was noted for the variety of subjects and genres that she worked in. This was unusual for female artists of the time who were more often restricted to smaller paintings, generally portraits or still-lifes.

Works by Michaelina Wautier

Collections represented

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