Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master

Opening in Vienna on Tuesday, an exhibition gathers her works into one show for the first timeThe first time Katlijne Van der Stighelen cast her eyes over The Triumph of Bacchus, it made her question her own judgment. The Belgian art historian and Rubens expert was visiting Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches museum for a conference in 1993 and had asked to see a van Dyck in the archives. On her way out she caught a glimpse of a vast, 2.7-metre by 3.5-metre oil painting of a wild and drunken parade