Lea SAINT-RAYMOND
Researcher
Director of the Observatoire des humanités numériques
Arts
Geography
History
Social Sciences
ENS-PSL
Published on
12 July 2021
, updated on
18 February 2023
Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (IHMC)
45 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
Alumna of the ENS, agrégée in economics and social sciences and doctor in art history, I currently direct the ENS-PSL Observatoire des humanités numériques.
Field of research
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 currently preparing an HDR on the sequestration of cultural property (19th-21st centuries).
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.