Baroness Pauline von Koudelka-Schmerling (8 September 1806 – 30 July 1840) was an Austrian flower painter.

[1] Pauline Freiin von Koudelka was born on 8 September 1806 in Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire.

[2] She trained under Franz Xaver Petter in Vienna and Cornelis van Spaedonck, Pierre Joseph Redouté and Jan Frans van Dael in Paris.

Her flower paintings were often of arrangements on flat surfaces and adorning images of Catholic saints or Madonnas.

[1] In 1835, she married Austrian statesman Anton Ritter von Schmerling.