Jacquelyn N. Coutré

Jacquelyn N. Coutré is the Eleanor Wood Prince Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since her arrival in 2019, she has overseen the 2021 reinstallation of the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish galleries, acquired paintings by Edwaert Collier and Maria van Oosterwijck, and curated Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape (2023). Prior to her time in Chicago, she was the Bader Curator and Researcher of European Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON), where she curated the traveling exhibition Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges. She has also held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields and has received research grants from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fulbright Foundation, among others.

Jacquelyn received her masters and PhD in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University with a specialization in early modern Northern European painting and a dissertation on the colleague and competitor of Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Lievens.