Career

Education and Training

2009

European Master of Arts Majoring in : Conservation and restoration of works of art, Option : Paper, 5th year in the Ecoles de Condé. Preparing a master’s thesis on the restoration of a skittles’game in papier mâché. Graduated in July. (ISCED 4)

2004

First Year of the First Cycle of the Ecole du Louvre. (ISCED 4)

2003

Literary Baccalauréat , equivalent to GCE – A levels, major French literature, Philosophy and English. (ISCED 3)

Work Experience

09 March – 29 May 2009

Internship in the Western Art on Paper conservation studio, in the British Museum. Conservation of prints and drawings, light bleaching, introduction to papyri conservation and to Japanese conservation.

05 January – 27 February 2009

Internship in the maps and large format studio of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Conservation of globes and mounting posters and large maps on canvas.

15 September 2008 – 23 December 2008

Internship at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. Conservation of parchment, as part of the Gottorfer Codex Project, conservation and mounting of art works for exhibitions and loans.

03 September 2007 - 28 September 2007

Internship in a fan conservation private studio called Atelier Anne Hoguet, in The Fan Museum (Paris). Restoration of various kinds of paper fans.

06 August 2007 - 31 August 2007

Internship in a paper conservation state studio, in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Conservation of a large drawing of Joseph Blanc who made the Grand Palais' frieze in Paris, mounting maps on canvas, engraving conservation, realization of preservation mountings and introduction to photograph conservation.

16 July 2007 - 27 July 2007

Internship in a paper conservation studio held in an archives centre in the Archives de l'Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris. Plan conservation and making of preservation cases for each document.

02 July 2007 - 13 July 2007

Internship in a paper conservation studio held in an archives centre, the Archives municipale de Lyon. Conservation of nineteenth century's blueprints and plans and withdrawall of various kinds of adhesives.

04 September 2006 - 15 September 2006

Internship in a binding conservation studio held in a local library, in the Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu in Lyon. Conservation of two books covered with leather, of which an incunabulum.

03 July 2006 - 29 July 2006

Internship in a paper conservation private practice in Paris called Ateliers Saint-Martin. Conservation of gouache and pastel, bleaching, baths, retouching.

04 July 2005 - 15 July 2005

Internship in an archives centre, in the Archives du Chateau de Versailles. Dusting of plans and account books.

Personal skills and competences

I took binding courses during two years with a professional from Lyon.