Sarah Grandin

Dr. Sarah Grandin is a Lecturer in the Arts of Early Modern France at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She specializes in the intersection of material culture, technical art history, and early modern French art. Her research examines how materials and techniques shaped knowledge production in France and its empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Before joining The Courtauld in 2024, Grandin held curatorial fellowships at the Clark Art Institute, co-curating exhibitions like *Promenades on Paper* (2022–2023) and launching the Clark’s first catalogue raisonné of early modern European paintings. She earned a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University, following an undergraduate degree in Art History and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

Her current research includes a monograph, *To Scale: Manufacturing Grandeur in the Age of Louis XIV*, exploring royal projects and artisan labor. She co-edits *Cahiers-Débats* and contributes to interdisciplinary journals like *Journal18*. Future projects include studies on the Comte de Maurepas’ visual archives and domestic labor in eighteenth-century French painting.

Grandin’s work has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Fulbright Program, and the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, among others.