Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to welcome Mrs. Carol Guillaume to the Louvre where she will assist Mrs. Gwenaëlle Fellinger, Curator in the Department of Islamic Art, with the organization of a major international exhibition on Qajar Art in 2018. Though French museums are rich in art from the Qajar period (1781 to 1925), most Iranian collections are not well known to the public. To remedy to this gap, Mrs. Fellinger has been conducting since 2012 an in-depth study of the Qajar collections kept in regional museums of France. Her study will culminate, with the assistance of our Fellow, to a major exhibition that will bring to light nearly 500 unpublished artworks preserved in national and private collections.
The Qajar Art Exhibition will run from March 28 to July 22, 2017, at the annex of the Louvre Museum in Lens, North of France. Along with the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, Mrs. Fellinger and Guillaume will organize an international colloquium on Qajar Art in June 2018 at Louvre-Lens. The two-day colloquium will enable scholars to study specific subjects that cannot be explained in depth in the exhibition nor in the catalogue. Papers from the colloquium will be published in 2019.
Mrs. Guillaume is a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, where she specialized in Art History with an emphasis on Qajar collections.
Her fellowship period is from September 2017 to August 2018.