For a coterie of early modern women artists spanning the 15th to 18th centuries, the past decade has marked a whirlwind of rediscovery. Unlike many contemporary women artists who have experienced elusive or sporadic success, most of these women were successful in their day but their legacies were obscured afterwards.The still life painter Rachel Ruysch, for example, was renowned in her lifetime (1664–1750) and sold some of her canvases for more than her fellow Amsterdammer Rembrandt ever commanded in his. Her fame faded after her death, but recently this Dutch Golden Age artist’s reputation has begun to approach its former glory.Ruysch’s first major monographic exhibition is on view at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, through December 7, after showing at Munich’s Alte Pinakothek and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. A Ruysch scholarly monograph is under contract as part of the “Illuminating Women Artists” series of illustrated scholarly monographs published jointly by Getty Publications and Lund Humphries.This attention to Ruysch’s work follows upon sale of a Ruysch still life for £1.65 million at Sotheby’s in 2013, one that marked a “notable early signal drawing new attention to the strength of demand for works by female Old Masters,” according to Elisabeth Lobkowicz, a director in the Old Master Paintings Department at Sotheby’s London.While academic interest began extracting early modern women artists from oblivion around the 1970s, coinciding with the feminist movement, auction houses pinpoint a market rise to around the 2010s. “The scarcity of these works generates demand,” Lobkowicz notes, “while each rediscovery deepens scholarship and renews an appreciation for the artists.”