Cécile Tainturier


Cécile Tainturier 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.

Career

Initially, she studied law in Cologne, Germany, before shifting her focus to art history, hoping to become an art auctioneer. 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.
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.
She has been an editorial board member of CODARTfeatures, since 2019.

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