Cécile Tainturier (born 1980) is an art historian and curator based in Paris, France. She currently serves as a curator at the Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, where she has worked since 2008.[1][2]
Career
editInitially, she studied law in Cologne, Germany, before shifting her focus to art history, hoping to become an art auctioneer.[3] She then began and completed a PhD at the University of Leiden, writing her dissertation on drawing lessons to pupils by master artists in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. [4]
Tainturier has made significant contributions to art history through her extensive writing, curatorial, and editorial work. She has been particularly instrumental, in creating sustained scholarly and popular interest in the Northern European painter Jacobus Vrel, whose work draws similarities to that of Vermeer in its depictions of street and interior scenes of everyday life.[5]
She has been an editorial board member of CODARTfeatures, since 2019.[6]
Exhibitions
edit- "Tableaux Flamands et Hollandais du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen" (2009): An exhibition featuring Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Rouen Museum of Fine Arts.
- "Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt" (2016-2017): Co-curated with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the exhibition explored the preparatory drawings used by painters during Rembrandt's lifetime.
- "Jacobus Vrel: Enigmatic Forerunner of Vermeer" (2023).[7][8]
References
edit- ^ Silvia Hernando. "One of the largest private collections of art on paper hides in plain sight in the heart of Paris." El País, 22 March 2023. [1].
- ^ Cécile Tainturier. Dessins de la Collection Frits Lugt. Paris: Institut Néerlandais, 1997.
- ^ "New Curator in the Spotlight: Cécile Tainturier". CODART. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ A. Agnes Sneller, Boukje Thijs, Juliette Roding. Beelden van Leiden: zelfbeeld en representatie van een Hollandse stad in de vroegmoderne tijd, 1550-1800. Publisher Verloren, 2006, p. 218. [2]
- ^ Milton Esterow. "The Phantom of Jacobus Vrel." Air Mail, 17 June 2023. [3]
- ^ "Cécile Tainturier." CODART, January 2023. [4]
- ^ "Jacobus Vrel: Enigmatic Forerunner of Vermeer". Fondation Custodia. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ "Jacobus Vrel: Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic Painter". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2024-07-29.