Full Description
Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689) is a name unfamiliar even to connoisseurs of Old Master painting. This handsome book seeks to correct that, by exploring the surviving portraits, history paintings, genre scenes and still-lifes that can be identified as hers. Born at Mons, Wautier pursued a successful career in Brussels, which was then ruled by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, whose collection ended up at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. This handsome book, produced by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in collaboration with the Royal Academy, brings together all the latest scholarship on the artist, alongside several exciting new attributions.
Contents
6 Foreword
8 Acknowledgements
11 Michaelina Wautier: The Challenges of Reconstruction
Gerlinde Gruber and Julien Domercq
22 Michaelina Wautier: A Chronology
Charlotte Roosen
29 Michaelina's Style: Blended Brilliance
Katlijne Van der Stighelen
61 Michaelina Herself: From Face to Phenomenon
Katlijne Van der Stighelen
71 Charles Wautier: Status quaestionis
Anne Delvingt and Pierre-Yves Kairis
89 Michaelina Wautier and Artistic Brussels
Sabine van Sprang and Lara de Merode
107 A Revised Biography of Michaelina Wautier
Jean Bastiaensen
123 Michaelina Wautier's Paintings in the Habsburg Collections
Gerlinde Gruber
135 The Materials and Techniques of Michaelina Wautier's The Five Senses
Kirsten Derks and Alice Limb
146 List of Works compiled by Charlotte Roosen
162 Notes
172 Bibliography
181 Lenders to the Exhibition
182 Photographic Acknowledgements
185 Index
