I’ve been very lucky this semester while working on my thesis. I am currently enrolled in an art history seminar that is taught at the Metropolitain Museum of Art by a curator, and she has helped to arrange access to the curatorial file for the self-portrait by Rose Ducreux and […]
As Professor Anne Higonnet has told me a couple of times this semester, “the stars seem to be aligned for this project” and she certainly was right today. This morning she and I had the pleasure of visiting a private collector of Sèvres 18th C porcelain at her home in […]
Over the last week (plus) I have continued to chip away at my pile of reading, collect notes, and I formulated my preliminary proposal which was turned in on Tuesday October 6. In terms of where I am in my research, I would say I still have a ways to […]
I, like my peer Megan Baker, have decided to further the work I began in Professor Anne Higonnet’s Spring 2015 course A Virtual Enlightenment and turn it into my senior thesis at Barnard College. My work for Professor Higonnet’s seminar dealt with French eighteenth-century materials and their makers whereby my individual […]
I was chosen to continue to work on the websites over the course of the summer as one of the post-production interns. During that time, I did research on Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, a very talented eighteenth-century French painter whose self-portrait is in the center of the Tessé Room. Mademoiselle Ducreux was […]
