For more than 300 years, the work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century painter from Brussels, has either been forgotten or attributed to her male peers. In 1993, however, while searching for an Anthony van Dyke in the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s storage units, the art history professor Katlijne Van der Stighelen found a monumental painting, Wautier’s Triumph of Bacchus. “I couldn’t believe my eyes,” said Van der Stighelen. “I had never seen such a large painting by a woman.” There are now 40 paintings attributed to Wautier, many featuring young boys, and she is rightfully viewed as an Old Master. Wautier’s first show in the United States centers around her 1650 series “The Five Senses,” in which sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell have a canvas each. While the convention at the time would have been to show a romanticized depiction of women experiencing such senses, Wautier again lets boys carry the subject. —Clara Molot