Emma Capron

video still of Xavier Salomon and Emma Capron speaking over painting
Frick Five: Emma Capron

In the sixth episode of “Frick Five,” Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, interviews Emma Capron, Associate Curator of Renaissance Painting at the National Gallery, London, and a former Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at the Frick. Emma answers our five questions, expressing her wish to be “deep-frozen” in a portrait by the 16th-century Italian painter Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo). “I would like [to be portrayed with] a wonderfully frozen attitude. . . .
Emma Capron: “Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and the Charterhouse of Bruges”

Emma Capron, 2016–18 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow, The Frick Collection

In the 1440s, Jan Vos, the prior of the Charterhouse of Bruges, commissioned two panel paintings from Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus. Now considered masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting, these works are reunited at The Frick Collection for only the second time in their history. The curator of the special exhibition examines the panels in their Carthusian context, highlighting how images shaped devotional life and funerary practices in late medieval Europe.

Link to introductory video for the exhibition Charterhouse of Bruges
The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos
Emma Capron, Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at The Frick Collection, provides an introduction to the current exhibition, The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos, on view at The Frick Collection from September 18, 2018 through January 13, 2019.