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Member of CODART since 2015
Areas of specialization
- 16th and 17th-century Northern European painting, sculpture and tapestry, in particular Michiel Sweerts and other artists from the Brussels region
- Artistic exchange between the Low Countries and Italy, as well as issues of artistic mobility, identity, and collaboration
Exhibitions curated since 1999
Selected publications
2024
“The Bentvueghels and a Brussels Network: Rediscovering the Life of Simon Ardé (c. 1596-1638)”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt and Suzanne Baverez
Article in Simiolus: Netherlands quarterly for the history of art, vol. 45 (2024), number 3/4, pp. 231-261
“Painting Margherita: Louis Cousin and Flemish Portraiture in Italy”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Essay in Campaspe Talks Back. Women who Made a Difference in the Arts in the Early Modern Low Countries. Essays in honour of Katlijne Van der Stighelen, edited by L. Van Deinsen, B. Schepers, M. Sterckx, H. Vlieghe and B. Watteeuw, pp. 400-409
Turnhout (Brepols Publishers) 2024
“Sculpter l’ivoire, la pierre et le bois: les débuts de François Duquesnoy à Bruxelles”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Article in Annales d’Histoire de l’Art et d’Archéologie, vol. 45 (2024), pp. 53-68
2021
Portrait of a Gentleman. Michael Sweerts (1618-1664) and the Elegance of Brussels Portraiture
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Phoebus Focus no. XXI
Veurne (Hannibal) 2021
Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature 1650–1700
Edited by Elizabeth Nogrady and Lara Yeager-Crasselt.
With an essay: “The Rules of Ovid: Myth, Classicism, and Metamorphosis in the Late Seventeenth-Century Netherlands,” pp. 24-33
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Poughkeepsie in 2021
Poughkeepsie (The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College) 2021
An Inner World: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
Edited by Heather Moqtaderi and Lara Yeager-Crasselt
With an essay: “Embracing an Inner World in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting,” pp. 19-33
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Philadelphia in 2021
Philadelphia, PA (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2021
2020
“Joachim von Sandrart’s ‘Academy of Antiquity’ and François Duquesnoy: The Experience of Academy and Community in Rome in 1629.”
In Roma 1629 (Pensieri ad Arte series), edited by Jan Blanc and Marije Osnabrugge, pp. 69-92
Rome (Editoriale Artemide) 2020
2019
Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age
Blaise Ducos and Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in 2019
London (Saqi Books) 2019
The Leiden Collection Catalogue
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, edited by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
Entries on “Rembrandt van Rijn, Bust of a Bearded Old Man;” “Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of Petronella Buys.”
New York (www.theleidencollection.com/archive/) 2019
2018
The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection
Edited by Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Vadim Sadkov, and Irina Sokolova
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2018
Moscow (The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts) 2018.
The Leiden Collection Catalogue
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, edited by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
Entries on “Rembrandt van Rijn and Workshop, Man with a Sword,” co-authored with Leonore van Sloten; “Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Seated Woman with Her Hands Clasped,” co-authored with Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.; “Govaert Flinck, Elegant Shepherdess Listening to a Shepherd Playing the Recorder in an Arcadian Landscape.”
New York (www.theleidencollection.com/archive/) 2018
2017
The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection
Edited by Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Catalaogue of an exhibition held at the National Museum of China in Beijing
Boston (Boundless Books) 2017
The Leiden Collection Catalogue
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, edited by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
Entries on “Attributed to Cornelis Bisschop, A Self-Portrait of an Artist Seated at an Easel;” “Ferdinand Bol, Man with a Book;” Ferdinand Bol, A Man with a Fur-Trimmed Hat;” “Ferdinand Bol, Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well;” “Ferdinand Bol, Self-Portrait, Behind a Parapet;” “Govaert Flinck, Portrait of a Man with a Hat;” “Gottfried Kneller, A Scholar in his Study;” “Michael Sweerts, Portrait of a Young Boy.”
New York (www.theleidencollection.com/archive/) 2017
2016
Splendor, Myth and Vision: Nudes from the Prado
Edited by Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Thomas J. Loughman and Kathleen M. Morris
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in 2016
New Haven (Yale University Press) 2016
“Knowledge and Practice Pictured in the Artist’s Studio: The ‘Art Lover’ in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Article in De Zeventiende Eeuw 32, no. 2 (2016), pp. 110-126
Available online
2015
Michael Sweerts (1618-1664): Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
‘Pictura Nova: Studies in 16th– and 17th– Century Flemish Painting and Drawing’, 21.
Turnhout (Brepols Publishers) 2015
“Pride and ambition in seventeenth-century Brussels. The drawing academy of Michael Sweerts”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Essay in Facts & Feelings: Retracing emotions of artists, 1600-1800, eds. K. van der Stighelen and H. Magnus, pp. 151-167.
Turnhout (Brepols Publishers) 2015
2014
“Ambrosisus Bosschaert;” “Jan Both;” “Hendrick ter Brugghen;” “Adriaen Coorte;” “Gerbrand van den Eeckhout;” “Hendrick Goltzius;” “Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen;” “Jan Lievens;” “Christoffel Pierson;” “Cornelis van Poelenburch;” “Salomon van Ruysdael;” “Godefridus Schalcken;” “Willem van de Velde the Elder;” “Willem van de Velde the Younger;” “Cornelis Verbeeck;” “Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck;” “Abraham de Verwer;” “Jacob van Walscapelle;” “Jan Weenix;” “Emmanuel de Witte;” “Cornelis Verbeeck;” “Jan Weenix;” “Emanuel de Witte;” “Philip Wouwermans;”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.
Entries in Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century (online catalogue)
Washington (NGA Online Editions) 2015
2012
“Michael Sweerts, Portrait of a Young Boy”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Essay in Vermeer: Il secolo d’oro dell’arte olandese, eds. A. K. Wheelock, Jr., W. Liedtke and S. Bandera, pp. 196-197.
Milan (Skira) 2012
2011
“Michael Sweerts/François Duquesnoy: A Flemish Paragone in Seventeenth-Century Rome”
Article in Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies 35, no. 2 (July 2011), pp 110-126.
“Ferdinand Bol, Man with a Book”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Essay in Communication: Visualizing the Human Connection in the Age of Vermeer, eds. A. K. Wheelock, Jr. and D. Lokin, pp. 134-135.
London (Scala) 2011