Geoffrey Ripert

Geoffrey Ripert (France, 1989) is a doctoral student in art history at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. His thesis focuses on the taste for marble objets d’art in eighteenth-century France (1700-1815). He was curatorial attaché in charge of decorative arts at the Frick Collection, New York, from 2016 to 2019. He studied art history at the Sorbonne Paris IV, the EPHE (École pratique des hautes études) and the École du Louvre. He is the recipient of the Burlington Magazine Scholarship 2023, and from 2024 to 2025, will be Anne L. Poulet Fellow at the Frick Collection.

 

 

In residence at Villa Medici, Geoffrey Ripert will conduct a research project on Franco-Italian networks for commissioning marble objets d’art in 18th-century Rome for French collectors. At the time, Rome was a hub of the marble trade and still contained many ancient marble remains, some of which were reworked by specialized craftsmen, mainly into vases, shuttles and columns, and then resold to prestigious French patrons or their agents. The aim of this research is to clarify the provenance, conditions and methods of manufacture, as well as the supply networks of these works of rare Italian marble to the Paris market.