Michaelina Wautier, 1614-1689
Subtitle: glorifying a forgotten talent
By: Katlijne Van der Stighelen ; with contributions by Gerlinde Gruber, Martha Howell, Jahel Sanzsalazar, Francesca Del Torre Scheuch, Ben van Beneden, Katijne Van der Stighelen, Martine van Elk
Contributors: Wautier, Michaelina, 1604-1689, artist; Gruber, Gerlinde, author; Howell, Martha C., author; Sanzsalazar, Jahel, author; Del Torre Scheuch, Francesca, author; Beneden, Ben van, author; Museum aan de Stroom (Antwerp, Belgium)
Publisher: BAI Publishers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wommelgem, Belgium]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789085867630
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; 20.70 European art; European Painting; Women artists
Other titles: Glorifying a Forgotten Talent; Michaelina; Michaelina : Barqoue's leading lady.
Description: In Antwerp in the summer of 2018 the MAS, in collaboration with the Rubens House, will be organizing a first-ever monographic exhibition of the forgotten female artist Michaelina Wautier (1614-89). She was born in Mons but developed her career in Brussels, where she was working in around 1650. The artist maintained contacts with the court of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria who had four of her works in his collection. We know of some thirty paintings and one drawing by her hand. More than a third of these are signed in full and dated. Wautier painted masterful historical pieces, incisive portraits, endearing genre scenes and tranquil flower arrangements. There is no doubt that she displayed a ground-breaking versatility. Challenging themes, masterly techniques and a grand scale are all characteristic of her work. All her pieces were produced between 1643 and 1659. Her masterpiece is undoubtedly The Triumph of Bacchus held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Michaelina Wautier appears in the painting as a seminude bacchante and is the only one of the figures present to look directly at the viewer.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Michaelina. Baroque's Leading Lady' at Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerp, 1 June-2 September 2018."--colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The Wonder of Michaelina  -- Ben Van Beneden; title: Growing up with Eight Brohters: A Biographical Exploration  -- Katlijne Van Der Stighelen; title: Forgotten Glory, Flawed Strategy?: The Laborious Rediscovery of Michaelina Wautier  -- Katlijne Van Der Stighelen; title: 'L'abondance & la diversité': The Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm  -- Gerlinde Gruber, Francesca del Torre Scheuch; title: The Influence of Others: The Wautiers, David Teniers and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's Theatrum Pictorium  -- Jahel Sanzsalazar; title: Between Tradition and Invention: The Adaptability of Early-Modern Female Artists  -- Katlijne Van Der Stighelen; title: Michaelina Wautier and Working Women in Early-Modern Europe  -- Martha Howell; title: 'Blessed art thou, Reader, if you are not of that sex': Public Femininity in the Seventeenth Century  -- Martine Van Elk; title: Michaelina's Versatile Hand: A Career without Beginning or End?  -- Katlijne Van Der Stighelen; title: Catalogue --; title: Genealogical Table: Descendants of Charles Wautier --; title: Bibliography --; title: Index.