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Kunsthistorisches Museum

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

30 September 2025 - 22 February 2026

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Presse release - Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Forgotten, repressed, celebrated 
The Kunsthistorisches Museum presents the largest exhibition to date on the painter Michaelina Wautier

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The Triumph of Bacchus

Michaelina Wautier
c. 1655–59
Oil on canvas, 271.5 × 355.5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Picture Gallery
© KHM-Museumsverband

Self-portrait

Michaelina Wautier
c. 1650
Oil on canvas, 120 × 102 cm
Private collection
Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Two Girls as Saints Agnes and Dorothy

Michaelina Wautier
c. 1655
Oil on canvas, 89.7 × 122 cm
Photographer: Rik Klein Gotink 
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp – 
Flemish Community
Photograph: under public domain

Two Boys Blowing Bubbles

Michaelina Wautier
c. 1650–55 
Oil on canvas, 90.5 × 121.3 cm
Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Mr. Floyd Naramore
© Seattle Art Museum 

The Five Senses (Smell)

Michaelina Wautier
1650
Oil on canvas, 69.5 × 61 cm
Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection, Boston
Photograph © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Five Senses (Taste)

Michaelina Wautier
1650
Oil on canvas, 69.5 × 61 cm
Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection, Boston
Photograph © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Five Senses (Touch)

Michaelina Wautier
1650
Oil on canvas, 69.5 × 61 cm
Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection, Boston
Photograph © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Five Senses ( Hearing)

Michaelina Wautier
1650
Oil on canvas, 69.5 × 61 cm
Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection, Boston
Photograph © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
 

The Five Senses (Sight)

Michaelina Wautier
1650
Oil on canvas, 69.5 × 61 cm
Rose-Marie and Eijk Van Otterloo Collection, Boston
Photograph © 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Portrait of Martino Martini

Michaelina Wautier
1654
Oil on canvas, 69.5 × 59 cm
The Klesch Collection, London
© Courtesy of The Klesch Collection

The Education of the Virgin

Michaelina Wautier
1656
Oil on canvas, 144.7 × 119.4 cm
The Hague, Private collection, by courtesy of the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation

 

Study of the Ganymede Medici Bust

Michaelina Wautier,
c. 1640–50
Black chalk, enhanced with white and ochre-coloured chalk, on paper,
430 x 283 mm
Private collection

Portrait of a Military Commander

Michaelina Wautier
1646
Oil on canvas, 63 x 56.5 cm
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of
Belgium, Brussels

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Michaelina Wautier, Painter

Exhibition view
© KHM-Museumsverband

Press contact

Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Lamprecht (external Head)
T +43 1 525 24 4021

Mag. Sarah Aistleitner
T +43 1 525 24 4025

Tanja Stigler
T +43 1 525 24 4019

presse@khm.at

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