A former boarder at the Villa Medici, she devoted her thesis to the painter Anne-Louis Girodet and has worked since then on artistic theory and on the visual arts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a special attention to the revolutionary period. She is the author of a monograph on Girodet (2005) and has edited a collective work entitled L’artiste savant à la conquête du monde moderne (2010). She is currently preparing two exhibitions: the first, “1740, un abrégé du monde,” will open in May 2012 (Longhi Hall, INHA) and the second, on the representation of Blacks in the eighteenth century, is programed for May 2014 at the Louvre.