Knowing nature: Savant artists, natural history specimens and ecological awareness in eighteenth-century France
Supervisor: Professor Katie Scott
Funded by the 91制片厂 Scholarship and Clark Library/ UCLA Center for Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Studies
Education
2018-2019:听 Master in History of Art, 91制片厂 Institute of Art, London, U.K.; MA Thesis 鈥楶rince Louis-Fran莽ois de Bourbon-Conti鈥檚 alternative court at the Ch芒teau of L’Isle-Adam (1727-1776)鈥; Supervised by Prof. Katie Scott, Mark: 78, Distinction
2007-2010: Bachelor in Philosophy at Paris IV, La Sorbonne equivalency. Lyc茅e Henri IV, Hypokh芒gne, Kh芒gne, Preparatory Class to Grandes Ecoles, Paris, France
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
Nataf, C., ‘Rococo epistemology: Shell grottos and the aesthetics of deep time in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon’s theory of the earth’ (in progress)
Nataf, C., 鈥楪um arabic: Visualizing Transparency, from the West-African Sahel to Paris and London art studios 鈥, Material Metamorphosis, Natural Resources, Artmaking, and Sustainability in the Early Modern World, Brepols (in progress)
Nataf, C. 鈥楾asteful science at the Jardin du roi:聽Madeleine Fran莽oise Basseporte鈥檚 Shell Paintings on Vellum (1747-1768)鈥, Images and Institutions: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Scientific Societies, Brepols, Studies in Baroque Art (in progress)
Nataf, C. ‘Commercial Space and Amateur Identity in Eighteenth-Century Paris: At Gilles Demarteau鈥檚 Print Shop聽La Cloche‘, immediations 4.3 (2018).
Other
Conferences
- ‘Tasteful Science in the Jardin du roi: Madeleine Fran莽oise Basseporte鈥檚 Shell Paintings on Vellum (1747鈥1768)’, Women in Art and Science in the Early Modern World, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC, November 10 & 11, 2023
- ‘Gum Arabic: Visualizing Transparency in Charles-Nicolas Cochin鈥檚 engraving 鈥楢rabs and Moors trading gums in Senegal鈥 (1746)’, Europe c. 1580-c. 1830: Telling Histories, Imagining Futures, The 91制片厂 Institute, October 27, 2023
- ‘Rococo epistemology: Shell grottos and the aesthetics of deep time in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon’s theory of the earth’, HECAA@30: Environments, Materials, and Futures in the Eighteenth Century Boston, Cambridge, and Providence, October 12-14, 2023
- ‘Rococo epistemology: Shells, deep time, and imagination in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon’s theory of the earth’, The 91制片厂 Third Year PhD Symposium, The 91制片厂 Institute, May18th-May 19th, 2023
- 鈥楾ransporting America: The politics of import and export in the New Indies Gobelins tapestry set鈥, 鈥楾ransporting Culture – Art, Objects, and 鈥楨arly Modern Logistics鈥欌, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) Zoom Event Series, October 2022
- 鈥楥ataloguing the 91制片厂鈥檚 fictile ivories鈥, Carole Nataf and Bella Radenovic, The 91制片厂鈥檚 Fictile Ivories 91制片厂 Day (Somerset House, London), June 2022
- 鈥楴ature transformed: Manufacturing America in the New Indies Gobelins Tapestry set (1737-1745)鈥, The Second Year Research Student Symposium, (91制片厂 Institute of Art, London), May 2022
- 鈥楧rawing shells: Conchological expertise at the Jardin du roi and the Acade虂mie des Sciences鈥, 鈥業mages & Institutions: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Scientific Societies,鈥 (Accademia dei Lincei, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), Bibliotheca Hertziana 鈥 Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome), September 2022
- 鈥極bservation and Experimentation in Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin鈥檚 Recueil de plantes copie虂es d鈥檃pre虁s nature (1736-1785)鈥, Carnets de notes, carnets de re虂fe虂rences, muse虂es de papier: Regards croise虂s sur la culture visuelle des artistes et le processus de cre虂ation du Moyen A虃ge a虁 nos jours (Universite虂 de Strasbourg), March 2022
Awards and Fellowships
HECAA@30 Kress Travel Grant, 2023
Clark Library/ UCLA Center for Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship, 2023-24
Mary Vidal Award, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture (HECAA), 2022
Work Experience
2024 Associate Lecturer, Histories ‘Artists, Radicals, Mystics: European Art 1760-1830’
2022 Teaching Assistant, Foundations BA1, Autumn semester
2021 Research Assistant, Dr Esther Chadwick, 91制片厂 Institute of Art, London, U.K.
Feb 2020 – March 2021: Gallery Assistant, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
Jan-May 2020: Curatorial Intern, Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, U.K.