Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Guillaume Faroult is Senior Curator at the Musée du Louvre in charge of French Paintings of the Eighteenth Century and British Paintings. He has curated many major exhibitions in these fields and in 2007 edited a catalogue raisonné of the paintings (mostly French of the Eighteenth Century) from the collection of Louis La Caze, now at the Louvre. He has published extensively about David, Fragonard and French eighteenth and nineteenth century collecting.
Monica Preti is an art historian who received her PhD in History and Civilization at the European University Institute (Fiesole, Florence). She is a former Research fellow at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris), and since 2006 she is Head of Academic Programs (History of Art and Archeology) at the Louvre’s Auditorium. Her research focuses on the history of taste, collections and museums in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Dr Christoph Martin Vogtherr has been Director of the Wallace Collection since 2011 and was previously Curator of Pictures pre-1800. Before joining the Collection he was Paintings Curator at the Foundation of Prussian Palaces and Gardens, Potsdam, Germany (1998-2007). In 2010 he published the catalogue raisonné of paintings by Watteau, Pater and Lancret in Berlin and Potsdam and, more recently, on Antoine Watteau, French eighteenth-century collecting and the Fête galante.