Lara Yeager-Crasselt

Lara Yeager-Crasselt is an American art historian and curator of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art.
She studied art history Vassar College and the University of Maryland, where she received her PhD.
Yeager-Crasselt was supervised during her dissertation at the University of Maryland her by the American art historian and curator Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., who was the Curator of Northern European at the National Gallery of Art, from 1975 to 2018, and succeeded by the American curator and art historian Betsy Wieseman.
She is specialized in the work of the Flemish painter Michael Sweerts, on whom she wrote her dissertation, which was published in 2015.
From 2017 to 2022 she was curator of the Leiden Collection; a private art collection, portions of which were exhibited at the Louvre and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Before her appointment at the Leiden Collection she was interim curator at the Clark Art Institute. Since 2022, she has been the Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Publications

Yeager-Crasselt has extensively published on seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, the dynamics of artistic exchange between the Low Countries and Italy, and issues of artistic mobility, identity, and collaboration:Portrait of a Gentleman. Michael Sweerts and the Elegance of Brussels Portraiture Changing Forms: Metamorphosis in Myth, Art, and Nature 1650–1700 An Inner World: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting Roma 1629 Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection Splendor, Myth and Vision: Nudes from the Prado Knowledge and Practice Pictured in the Artist’s Studio: The ‘Art Lover’ in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands Michael Sweerts : Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels Facts & Feelings: Retracing emotions of artists, 1600-1800

''Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century''