Michaelina Wautier (16041689) 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.
Text in English and German.
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All the latest scholarship on this unjustly little-known artist, alongside several exciting new attributions .
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum October 2025 January 2026, and at the Royal Academy of Arts 27 February 21 June 2026
125 colour illustrations
By:
Jean Bastiaensen,
Lara de Merode,
Anne Delvingt,
Kirsten Derks,
Gerlinde Gruber
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 280mm,
Width: 240mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.220kg
ISBN: 9781915815200
ISBN 10: 1915815207
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 February 2026
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Prelims Half-title, title pages Imprint page with sponsor logos, contents page Joint foreword, by PRA and Director of KHM RA sponsor's preface Acknowledgements Essays and plates Introduction, by Gerlinde Gruber and Julien Domercq Biographical timeline, by Charlotte Roosen 1. New documents on the Wautiers, the court and Mons, by Jean Bastiaensen 2. Michaelina Wautier’s stylistic development, by Katlijne van der Stighelen 3. Michaelina Wautier: self-portrait, by Katlijne van der Stighelen 4. Charles Wautier, by Anne Delvingt and Pierre-Yves Kairis 5. Michaelina Wautier's contemporaries in Brussels, by Lara de Merode and Sabine van Sprang 6. The Wautiers in early sources, by Gerlinde Gruber 7. Technical aspects of the paintings of Michaelina Wautier, by Kirsten Derks and Alice Limb Captions for catalogue plates Endmatter List of works exhibited with thumbnails Endnotes Bibliographic sources Lenders to the exhibition Photographic acknowledgements Index RA benefactors
Editors: Gerlinde Gruber is Curator of Flemish Painting at the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Katlijne Van der Stighelen is Emeritus Full Professor of the Department of Art History at KU Leuven (Belgium). Julien Domercq is Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Authors: Jean Bastiaensen is an independent archival researcher and palaeographer specialised in Dutch and Flemish sources from the 14th to 17th centuries. Anne Delvingt, Ph.D. in Art History (University of Brussels), is an independent researcher. Kirsten Derks is an FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders) postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Antwerp, where she is affiliated with the ARCHES and AXIS research groups. Pierre-Yves Kairis is honorary senior research fellow of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (IRPA) in Brussels. Alice Limb is the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lara de Merode is Curator for Flemish Painting 1650–1748 and Foreign Schools at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Charlotte Roosen is Curatorial Research Assistant at the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Sabine van Sprang is Senior Curator for Flemish Painting 1550–1650 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
