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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco stewards an under-recognized yet intriguing collection of Netherlandish paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Several were given by patrons with ties to San Francisco’s business and cultural landscape over the past century. This lecture examines collection highlights, from the devastating Lucretia from the workshop of Joos van Cleve, acquired by a visionary director, to the Virgin and Child by Dieric Bouts and workshop, the most splendid version of a devotional type by this influential painter, given to the Museums in 1975.
About the speaker
Isabella Lores-Chavez is associate curator of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she is responsible for Netherlandish paintings. In 2024, she curated Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor. Isabella’s first book, Plaster Casts in the Life and Art of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painters: Absence and Presence, was published in 2025. Isabella completed her BA at Yale and her PhD in art history at Columbia. Born in Colombia and raised in Los Angeles, she has also worked at the Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco stewards an under-recognized yet intriguing collection of Netherlandish paintings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Several were given by patrons with ties to San Francisco’s business and cultural landscape over the past century. This lecture examines collection highlights, from the devastating Lucretia from the workshop of Joos van Cleve, acquired by a visionary director, to the Virgin and Child by Dieric Bouts and workshop, the most splendid version of a devotional type by this influential painter, given to the Museums in 1975.
About the speaker
Isabella Lores-Chavez is associate curator of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she is responsible for Netherlandish paintings. In 2024, she curated Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor. Isabella’s first book, Plaster Casts in the Life and Art of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painters: Absence and Presence, was published in 2025. Isabella completed her BA at Yale and her PhD in art history at Columbia. Born in Colombia and raised in Los Angeles, she has also worked at the Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
