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TIPP! Colloquium

Women’s Enterprise in the French Art Economy

On the 26th–27th September 2025, the Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) in Paris will host the colloquium “Women’s Enterprise in the French Art Economy” that brings together art history, women’s history, and economic history to explore how women shaped the financing of artistic production in France – from painting and sculpture to architecture, photography, and the decorative arts.

Spanning from the patronage practices of Louis XIV to the Occupation in the 20th century, it highlights women as active players in the art market: moving money, investing, running businesses, and founding enterprises, all within the limits of their legal and social status.

The focus lies on the strategies women developed to adapt to, circumvent, or challenge male-dominated financial and artistic networks. Education, access to knowledge, and economic information shaped their opportunities – raising the question of whether there were specifically “female” ways of doing business in the arts.

The colloquium is organized into five sessions, focusing on Patrons and Philanthropists of the Arts, Art Dealers and Entrepreneurs, Self-Financing and Creation, The Economic Life of the Workshop, and Promoting and Financing the Performing Arts. It will feature presentations in both English and French, highlighting the activities of significant figures such as Nélie Jacquemart, Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman, Hélène Oettingen, Berthe Weill and Antoinette Saint-Huberty.

The full programme can be found here.

The entry to the colloquium is free of charge and no prior registration is required.

26.–27.09.2025 | 09:30–17:00 Uhr | Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art | Paris

TIPP! Call for Paper

The Business of Art, au féminin: Women’s Enterprise in the French Art Economy (late 1600s to 1945)

The upcoming colloquium “The Business of Art, au féminin: Women’s Enterprise in the French Art Economy (late 1600s to 1945)” is scheduled to take place at the Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris on the 26.–27. September 2025 and aims to explore the multifaceted roles women have played in financing and developing artistic production in France, encompassing various forms such as painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, engraving, and photography.

By examining a broad historical timeframe starting from the policies and practices of artistic patronage initiated by Louis XIV up to the particular circumstances of the Occupation the colloquium seeks to identify both continuities and transformations in women’s contributions to the art economy.

Scholars are invited to submit proposals that delve into topics including, but not limited to: Profiles of female merchants, gallery owners, publishers, sponsors, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, investors, shareholders, and borrowers. As well as collective financing methods, modes of wealth accumulation, dissolution, and transmission, the visibility or invisibility of women leading businesses and conducting financing operations and the range and specificity of artistic domains in which women invested.

Proposals, in French or English, should include a summary of the paper (maximum 500 words) and a short biographical note (maximum 300 words). Submissions are due by March 16 and should be sent to the organizers: Nastasia Gallian, Elsa Jamet , and Justine Lécuyer .

Presentations scheduled to take place at the Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris on September 26.–27 will be 20 minutes long and can be delivered in either French or English. While the colloquium is planned as an in-person event, virtual participation may be accommodated in exceptional cases.

A publication of the proceedings is also anticipated.

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