Lucie Montassier

Lucie Montassier (1995, France) is a PhD student in art history at the University of Poitiers and winner of the Fondation des Amis pour le rayonnement des musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie doctoral scholarship. Her work focuses on sculpture in the second half of the 19th century and on transnational exchanges. At the same time, she carries out research missions for several institutions. In particular, she has worked on the collection of the sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert for the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Béziers and on the collection “La Musée. Une collection d’artistes femmes” for the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers.

Under the supervision of Claire Barbillon, Lucie Montassier is working on a thesis on the travels and stays in Italy of European and American women sculptors between 1850 and 1914. As part of a social and transnational history of sculpture, her research examines the social and material contexts that made these stays possible, and proposes to reinvestigate, through the prism of gender, the study of the artistic experience of travel in Italy. The main aim of her residency in Rome is to build up a database of foreign female sculptors present in the capital, based in particular on registers of enrolment at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and on exhibition catalogs.