Education
- Ph.D., Paris-Sorbonne University, Islamic Arts History | 2015
Mention Très honorable avec félicitations du jury à l’unanimité - M.A., Paris-Sorbonne University, Islamic Arts History | 2010
- B.A., Paris-Sorbonne University, Arts History | 2008
Academic Research
- “Persian and Indian Flower Paintings during the Modern Era (16th-18th centuries)”
Doctoral dissertation in French under the title La peinture de fleurs persane et indienne de la période moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), under supervision of Pr. Jean-Pierre Van Staëvel and Pr. Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Paris-Sorbonne University
The reworked research is available here.
Publications
“Dans les allées du jardin allégorique : Le développement de la peinture de fleurs en Inde et en Iran”, Jardins et palais d’Orient, Exhibition held by the Louvre Museum at the Hôtel départemental des expositions du Var: 14 Dec. 2024 – 6 Apr 2025. Available here.
La Tortue et les deux Canards et autres fables de La Fontaine de source arabe. Versant Sud Jeunesse, 2024. Available here.
“Like a Garden Bedecked: Floral Margins in the Muraqqaʿs of Antoine Polier“, Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs, Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors, Brill, Islamic Manuscripts and Books, Volume: 23, edited by Friederike Weis, 2024. Available here.
“Sept motifs des Arts de l’Islam”, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Cartier et les Arts de l’Islam, November 2021, pp. 14-15. Available here.
“Patronage and Productions of Paintings and Albums in 18th-Century Awadh“, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 12-2 (2021), pp. 174-201. Available here.
“Homme d’Orient, Homme d’Occident, masculinité et virilité entre Iran et Europe au XVIIe siècle”, proceedings of the symposium D’Adonis à Alexandre: cartographie du masculin de la Renaissance aux Lumières dans les littératures européennes”, Paris, Classique Garnier, 2020.
“In the Mist of the Aftermath: Illegal excavations, antique trade and Islamic Art: trade practices of pre-modern Syrian art“, Islamic World of Art magazine, vol. 5 (winter 2019). Available here.
“Un exotisme à l’orientale? Les apports européens dans la peinture de fleurs persane et indienne (XVIe-XVIIIe s.)“, Le Verger, 8 (2014) available here
“La commande européenne de Muraqqa’ indiens: Les collections Gentil, Johnson, Polier et Clive.”, “Art et politique”, Carnet de l’Ecole Doctorale Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (2016) available here
Organisation of Conferences, Seminars and Panels
“Like graceful youths and entertainers”: Figurative margins in Persianate manuscripts and albums (15th-19th centuries).
Panel organised by Isabelle Imbert and Theresa Zischkin, Societas Iranologica Europaea: 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden, August 2023
Time and Spaces of Travel during the Modern Era
Château de Chantilly, Cornucopia and the Alexandre Koyré Center, June 2016
Witchcraft during the Reformation
Seminar organized for the association Cornucopia, Paris-Sorbonne University, Winter 2015
Hunting in Renaissance Literature, History and Art
Seminar organized for the association Cornucopia, Paris-Sorbonne University, Spring 2015
Questioning the language in Art History
Doctoral Seminar, in association between Paris-Sorbonne University and Pantheon-Sorbonne University, 2011-2012
Edition
Co-edition in collaboration of Le Verger, 12 (Sept. 2017): Temps et espaces du Voyage à la Renaissance, available here (peer-reviewed)
Co-edition in collaboration of Le Verger, 8 (Sept 2015): L’exotisme à la Renaissance, available here (peer-reviewed)
Unpublished talks
A Garment for every Page: Comparative Methodology to Dating Indian Floral Designs
Images of Drapes/Draped Images: Textiles and Representation in Early Modern Asia and Europe, University of Vienna, 2023.
Back in Style: Qajar figurative margins in Safavid manuscripts.
“Like graceful youths and entertainers”: Figurative margins in Persianate manuscripts and albums (15th-19th centuries). Panel organised by Isabelle Imbert and Theresa Zischkin, 10th ECIS, Leiden, 2023.
The Rose and the Brush: Flower Paintings in India and Persia and their Connexion with European Botanical Illustrations (16th-18th c.)
Lunchtime lecture organised by the Church Conservation Trust, 2022
Recording available here.
Shafī’ ‘Abbāsī and Ornament Engravings: An example of artistic exchanges between 17th century Europe and Iran
Journée d’études Cartier: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2022
Recording available here.
Like a Garden Bedecked: Floral Margins in 18th century Albums produced for European Patrons
Eighteenth-century Persianate Albums Made in India: Audiences – Artists – Patrons and Collectors
Berlin, 2021
Des mosquées de Damas aux salons de New-York; Réflexions sur les enjeux du commerce de la céramique architecturale islamique.
4th Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans
Online, 2021
Le jardin persan : de Cyrus le Grand à Shah Jahan.
Le Castelet Association, Castelnaudary, 2016
Relations culturelles entre Iran, Inde et Europe à l’époque moderne.
Université du Temps Libre, Noisy-le-Grand, 2015
Something old and Something borrowed : Persian Flower Paintings during the 17th century.
8th European Conference of Iranian Studies, St. Petersburg, 2015
Jardins réels, jardins rêvés en Iran et Inde à la Renaissance
Pierre de Ronsard and Cornucopia associations: Les jardins en Orient et en Occident à la Renaissance, Couture-sur-Loir, 2015
Les peintures de fleurs en Iran et en Inde durant la période moderne : entre Orient et Occident.
Master degree seminar, Sorbonne University, 2015
La botanique pour l’art : les peintures de fleurs naturalistes en Iran safavide et Inde moghole (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles).
Doctoral Seminar, Sorbonne University, 2015
Homme d’Orient, Homme d’Occident : virilité et masculinité en Iran au XVIe siècle.
Seminar, Cornucopia association, Sorbonne University, 2014
Les apports européens dans la peinture de fleurs persane et indienne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles).
Seminar, Cornucopia association, Sorbonne University, 2013
De la discussion jaillit la lumière : histoire et art de l’Inde islamique (VIIe-XIXe siècles).
Association Culturelle du Razes, Montréal de l’Aude, 2013
Le peintre et la rose : les peintures de fleurs de Shafi’ ‘Abbasi.
Doctoral seminar, Sorbonne University, 2012
Le patronage européen d’albums de peintures indiennes au XVIIIe siècle : essai d’interprétation.
Doctoral seminar, Sorbonne University, 2011
Les sources iconographiques du nomadisme en Asie centrale: Le témoignage de Siyah Qalam
Doctoral seminar, Sorbonne University, 2011
The Dreamed Orient of collectors: Reception of Turkish, Persian and Indian albums in Europe.
1st Symposium of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, 2011
Research programmes
- “Tradition manuscrite et transmission iconographique: les manuscrits à peintures des Kalila wa Dimna” (2012-2017)
Bibliothèque nationale de France and Paris-Sorbonne University, direction Pr Eloïse Brac de la Perrière and Dr Annie Vernay-Nouri. The description of the project is available here.
- “Autour du Coran de Gwalior: Polysémie d’un manuscrit à peintures” (2008-2012)
Paris-Sorbonne University and the Aga Khan Collection, direction Pr Eloïse Brac de la Perrière. The description of the project is available here.
Teaching
- 2022: Guest Lecturer – SOAS, London
- 2014/2015: Teaching Assistant – Sorbonne University, department of Art History, Paris
- 2014/2015: Guest Lecturer – Paris College of Art, Paris
- 2013/2014 – 2014/2015: Adjunct Lecturer – Ecole des Arts et de la Culture, Paris
- 2014/2015: Graduate supervision – Ecole des Arts et de la Culture, Paris
Collections and Art Market
- Freelance research and writing for Islamic arts experts (2017 – 2024)
- Marie-Christine David Expertises, Islamic arts expertise (2010-2011)
- Cité de la céramique, Sèvres: Inventory and documentation of the Indian ceramics collection (2012)
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