My research relies on the tools of digital humanities to analyze the history of the art market and preference systems over a long period of time. I am also interested in "global" art history, through publications and an exhibition I am curating, at the Fine Arts Museum in Lyon (June-September 2024).
In my art history dissertation, I built a corpus of more than 2,000 Parisian public auction catalogs between 1830 and 1939 - 216,445 paintings, drawings and sculptures, 60,466 art objects and 9,165 antiques - which I studied using computational data analysis tools: statistics, econometrics, digital mapping, textometry and network analysis.
I founded the GeoMAP, DatArt, and Digital Viau projects, and I co-direct IMAGO and MSS.
Since 2019, I teach digital humanities at ENS-PSL, in the introductory course, in intensive training and, since 2021, in collective project coaching.
Books
Digital Humanities Papers
- « Vers une histoire élargie des collections ? Les annuaires artistiques des collectionneurs au prisme des humanités numériques », Histoire de l’art, n°87 « Humanités numériques », 2021, p. 137-148.
- « Bordeaux vs. Paris: An Alternative Market for Local and Independent Artists? », Arts 2020, 9(4), 114.
- with Solène Amice, Danyl Hadjali, Haythem Hassayoun, Paul Jean, Julien Sentuc, Pavel Soriano, Mathurin Videau et Yi Zhao, « Toulouse, the Glorious Athens of the South? Computational Analysis of the Salons des Artistes Méridionaux (1907-1939) », Preprints, 2021.
- with Julien Cavero et Félicie Faizand de Maupeou, « Les rues des tableaux : The Geography of the Parisian Art Market 1815-1955 », Artl@s Bulletin 6, 1, 2016.
- with Julien Cavero and Félicie Faizand de Maupeou, « Les rues des tableaux. Géographie du marché de l'art parisien (1815-1955) », Artl@s Bulletin 4, 1, 2015.
- with Félicie Faizand de Maupeou, « Les “marchands de tableaux” dans le Bottin du commerce : une approche globale du marché de l’art à Paris entre 1815 et 1955 », Artl@s Bulletin 4, 1, 2013.
- with Antoine Courtin, « Enriching and Cutting: How to Visualize Networks Thanks to Linked Open Data Platforms », Artl@s Bulletin 6, 3, 2017.