Study day
View from the Agnès Thurnauer. Correspondances (2 October 2025–8 February 2026) exhibition, Musée Cognacq-Jay
In order to analyse and highlight the place of women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the public institution Paris Musées and the Musée Cognacq-Jay – Le goût du XVIIIe are partnering with AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research, and Exhibitions to present a half-day study event, accompanying the exhibition Agnès Thurnauer. Correspondances (2 October 2025–8 February 2026). Museum and university professionals from across Europe will gather for two round tables structuring the half-day, introduced by Anne-Sophie de Gasquet, Director General of the public institution Paris Musées, Valérie Guillaume, Director of the musée Carnavalet, Saskia Ooms, Curator at the Musée Cognacq-Jay and co-curator of the exhibition, Agnès Thurnauer, artist and co-curator of the exhibition, and Camille Morineau, Director of AWARE.
This event aims to shed light on the decisive role played by women in various intellectual and creative spheres in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Their visibility will be examined, as well as the strategies they employed to circumvent the structural obstacles that shaped their trajectories. A first round table will explore the place of women artists, writers, and patrons. Then, during a second English-speaking round table, the role of women in art, philosophy, and the sciences will be discussed.
Practical information
Friday, January 9, 2026, from 2pm to 6pm
Orangerie Room, Musée Carnavalet, entrance via 14 rue Payenne, 75003 Paris
Free and open to the public upon registration here
The event will take place in French and English
Part of the event will be recorded and broadcast on the AWARE website and that of the Musée Cognacq-Jay
Programme
Fri. 09 January 2026
Salle de l’Orangerie, Musée Carnavalet
Salle de l’Orangerie, Musée Carnavalet
2:00-2:15 pm
Welcome and introduction by Anne-Sophie de Gasquet, Valérie Guillaume, Saskia Ooms, Agnès Thurnauer, and Camille Morineau
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Anne-Sophie de Gasquet, Director General of the public institution Paris Musées, Valérie Guillaume, Director of the musée Carnavalet, Saskia Ooms, Curator at the Musée Cognacq-Jay and co-curator of the exhibition, Agnès Thurnauer, artist and co-curator of the exhibition, and Camille Morineau, Director of AWARE.
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2:15-3:45 pm
Round table on the place of women artists, writers and patrons (in French)
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Speakers
Xavier Salmon (General Curator, interim Director of the Department of Graphic Arts, Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Anne-Laure Sol (Chief Curator, Head of the Department of Paintings and Stained Glass, Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris)
Hélène Delalex (Chief Curator, Furniture and Works of Art, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon, Versailles)
Moderator
Matylda Taszycka (Head of Research Programmes, AWARE, Paris)
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3:34-4:00 pm
Break
4:00-5:30 pm
Round table on the place of women in art, philosophy, and the sciences (in English)
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Speakers
Mechthild Fend (Professor of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art History, Institute of Art History, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
Josephina de Fouw (Curator of Eighteenth-Century Paintings and Frames, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Sandrine Aragon (Lecturer-Researcher, Sorbonne Université, CELLF – Centre for the Study of the French Language and Literatures, Paris and CNRS, Paris)
Moderator
Eléonore Besse (Project Manager to the Director, AWARE, Paris)
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