Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist

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Extended piece on a recently re-appreciated female painter. Check out the expressions on the boys in her "Five Senses" series.

And in the large "Bacchus" painting, I presume that is her, looking at the viewer?

 

For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.

 

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Wautier had been largely forgotten for more than 300 years when Van der Stighelen came across one of her paintings while rummaging around in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where she was trying to hunt down a portrait attributed to Anthony van Dyck.

“A curator took me along corridors that had ‘second class’ Flemish paintings,” she recalled in an interview. “When I was leaving, I saw a monumental painting — about nine feet high and twelve feet wide. I didn’t recognize it. He said, ‘Not much is known about it, but it is painted by a woman.’ ”