During her stay in Berlin she will explore the subject of France occupying a privileged space in the artistic relationships between Europe and the Middle East. She will study the pictorial diffusion of the Nineteenth century messages regarding the “Eastern world,” i.e iconographic choices and marketing strategies made by Goupil & Cie, as well as the legacy of the Middle East in the Nineteenth century art market. In addition to studying the evolution of the American and European tastes for images of the Orient as recorded in Goupil & Cie’s ledgers, she will study the taste of and the role played by Middle-Eastern collectors in the international art market.
EUME
2010/ 2011
2010/ 2011
Agnès Penot-Lejeune
Artistic Relationships between Europe and the Middle East
is completing her PhD in History of art at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne under the supervision of Dominique Poulot. Her dissertation is entitled The internationalization of the French art market during the nineteenth century through the example of the art Gallery Goupil & Cie. In a comparative study utilizing history, economics, and sociology, this dissertation focuses on one of the worldwide most successful French art galleries and print dealers of the period.
She has been a 2008–2009 fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and worked closely with the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance in order to create a database recording the Goupil & Cie’s stock books.
Agnès Penot-Lejeune is affiliated EUME Fellow 2010/ 2011 funded by the Centre Inter-disciplinaire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne.
