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Leuven acquires a painting by Michaelina Wautier
13/7/23 - Acquisition - Leuven, M Leuven - She was a 17th-century painter whose works were often attributed to her brother, Charles Wautier, or to other male artists such as Jacob van Oost the Elder. However, Michaelina Wautier gained recognition during her lifetime, and Leopold-Guillaume de Habsbourg, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, owned several of her works.
She tackled all formats and almost all genres: portraits, genre scenes, still lifes, and even historical, religious and mythological painting, in ambitious compositions that were by no means obvious for a woman. One of her most famous paintings is The Triumph of Bacchus, in which she did not hesitate to depict a male nude.
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- Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689)
Study of a Bearded Man’s Head, c. 1655
Oil on panel -…
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