Prof. dr. Yvonne Bleyerveld

Curriculum Vitae and duties

Yvonne Bleyerveld studied Art History at Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam). She received her PhD from the same university in 1999 for her PhD thesis Hoe bedriechlijck dat die vrouwen zijn. Vrouwenlisten in de beeldende kunst in de Nederlanden circa 1350-1650 (published in Leiden 2000). Subsequently she held research and lecturing posts at VU Amsterdam and Utrecht University.

Between 2008 and 2017 Yvonne worked as a freelance art historian and editor for various museums and publishers. She conducted research on the sixteenth-century Netherlandish drawings in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Teylers Museum in Haarlem. With Ilja Veldman she wrote The Netherlandish Drawings of the 16th Century in Teylers Museum (2016). In 2019 her book on the woodcuts of Jacob Cornelisz (1460/65-1533) was published in the series The New Hollstein: Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700.

Since 2017 Yvonne Bleyerveld has been working at the RKD as Senior Curator Drawings and Prints. In October 2020 she was appointed endowed professor 'Art on Paper and Parchment' at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University.

Bleyerveld is member of the editorial board of Oud Holland. Journal for Art of the Low Countries.

Additional positions

Yvonne Bleyerveld is member of Teylers Tweede Genootschap and member of the jury of the Duparc Prijs of the Mauritshuis.

Publications (selection)

• 5 entries in D. van Heesch, S. Van Ooteghem and J. Van Grieken (ed.), Bruegel and Beyond – Netherlandish Drawings in the Royal Library of Belgium 1500-1800, Veurne 2022
• Landschappen op royaal formaat. Noord-Nederlandse kunstenaars tekenen in de buitenlucht, ca. 1580-1700, Inaugural lecture Leiden University, 21 March 2022
• ‘On the spot: the appeal of the local’, in: S. Anderson and J. Seidenstein (ed.), Crossroads. Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exhibition catalogue Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA 2022, pp. 34-55
• ‘Two Seated Monkeys: The Earliest “Pen Works” by Jacob Matham’, Master Drawings 60/1 (2022), pp. 31-34
• 18 entries in R. Cohen Tervaert et al., Aged well. Drawings from the Kröller-Muller collection: 1500-1850, exhibition catalogue Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo 2021
• ‘Hoe Adriaen van de Venne zijn graveurs instrueerde. Ontwerptekeningen voor boekillustraties met opmerkelijke annotaties’, in: J. Bos et al. (ed.), Oude boeken, nieuwe podia /Old Books, New Platforms. Liber amicorum voor/for Marieke van Delft, Den Haag/Tielt 2021, pp. 24-31
• ‘Meticulous and versatile. Allart van Everdingen the draughtsman’, in: C.M. Klinkert and Y. Bleyerveld (ed.), Allart van Everdingen 1621-1675. Master of the rugged landscape, exhibition catalogue Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar 2021, pp. 77-103
• The New Hollstein: Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700. Jacob Cornelisz (2019)
• Contributions to Jan Steen en de historieschilderkunst (Mauritshuis, 2018)
• Contribution to and editing of Slow Food. Hollandse en Vlaamse maaltijdstillevens 1600-1640 (Mauritshuis, 2017)
• With Ilja Veldman, The Netherlandish Drawings of the 16th Century in Teylers Museum (2016)
• Editing of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen ca. 1475-1533 (Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar en Amsterdam Museum, 2014)
• Contributions to Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014)
• With Robert Stein, ‘De bijbelse geschiedenis in glas. Een geschreven beeldprogramma voor een reeks glasramen in de pandgang van het klooster Scheut (circa 1515)’, Millennium. Tijdschrift voor middeleeuwse studies 23 (2009), nr. 1-2, pp. 44-77
• ‘Van de tiran verlost. Het boekje Tyrannorum praemia. Den loon der tyrannen van Willem van Haecht (1578)’, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 52 (2001), pp. 127-153
• ‘Chaste, obedient and devout: biblical women as patterns of female virtue in Netherlandish and German graphic art, ca. 1500-1750’, Simiolus 28 (2000-2001), nr. 4, pp. 219-250
• Hoe bedriechlijck dat die vrouwen zijn. Vrouwenlisten in de beeldende kunst in de Nederlanden circa 1350-1650, Leiden 2000