Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

9/1/2016 - 8/31/2017

Funding Totals

$50,400.00 (approved)
$50,400.00 (awarded)


Clémence d'Ennery (1853-1914): A Female Connoisseur in the Age of Male Collecting

FAIN: FA-233404-16

Elizabeth N. Emery
Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ 07043-1600)

Completion of a book-length study of Clémence d'Ennery (1823-1898), the first French woman to build a museum of Asian art, and the social and cultural forces that influenced 19th-century women art collectors in France.

The nineteenth-century French fascination for Asian art has generated much scholarship, little of which mentions women collectors. This book brings light to the social context surrounding Clémence d'Ennery, who assembled 6,300 objects from Japan, China, and India, built a museum with her own money, and willed it to France. She was the first French woman of her time to do such a thing, yet she is unknown today. This case study of d'Ennery and her museum serves as a magnifying glass through which to examine developing cultural forces that made it difficult for nineteenth-century women to make their marks as collectors. The book brings attention to d'Ennery's story by discussing major issues in the humanities, including injustices in the writing of history, stereotypes about ethnicity and gender, the struggle for non-elites to gain cultural capital and respect, and the choices made when acquiring and displaying art.



Media Coverage

Montclair's Elizabeth Emery receives NEH fellowship award (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Gwen Orel
Publication: Montclair Times
Date: 1/13/2016
URL: http://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/art/montclair-s-elizabeth-emery-receives-neh-fellowship-award-1.1502150?page=all

NEH Grant for Emery (Media Coverage)
Publication: Montclair State University web page
Date: 12/18/2015
URL: http://www.montclair.edu/news/article.php?ArticleID=15668

Professor Receives Research Grant (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Deanna Rosa
Publication: The Montclarion
Date: 1/23/2016
URL: http://themontclarion.org/professor-recieves-research-grant/

Finding Japan in France (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Samuel Wright
Publication: Brigham Young University Humanities Center Newsletter
Date: 6/9/2016
Abstract: Article about a conference based on grant-related funding presented at BYU.
URL: http://humanities.byu.edu/finding-japan-in-france/

Exploring the Art of Collecting (Media Coverage)
Publication: Forward Thinking
Date: 5/15/2016
Abstract: Article describing the grant
URL: https://www.montclair.edu/forward-thinking/spring-2016/exploring-the-art-of-collecting/

“Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914” by Elizabeth Emery (Review)
Author(s): Fiona Collins
Publication: Asian Review of Books
Date: 1/14/2021
URL: https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/reframing-japonisme-women-and-the-asian-art-market-in-nineteenth-century-france-1853-1914-by-elizabeth-emery/

Elizabeth Emery, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France (1853–1914) (Review)
Author(s): Laurinda Dixon
Publication: Journal of Japonisme
Date: 1/22/2021
URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/joj/6/1/article-p83_83.xml

1 hr Elizabeth Emery, "Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2020) (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Erin Duncan O’Neill
Publication: New Books Network
Date: 6/17/2021
Abstract: Erin Duncan O’Neill (Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Emery (Professor, Montclair State University) about Emery’s recent book, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury, 2020). Women figured prominently among the leading collectors and purveyors of Asian art in mid-nineteenth-century France, but scholars no longer recognize their influence. In her latest book, Reframing Japonisme,Elizabeth Emery asks us to consider their disappearance in light of the gendered dynamics at play in practices of artistic production and circulation of that period. She presents a trove of materials--art objects, literary accounts, and fragmentary records scattered among diverse archives—to bring renewed attention to women’s contributions to the French discover of Japanese art and its celebration in museums, social settings, and the global art market.
URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elizabeth-emery-reframing-japonisme-women-asian-art/id1534347682?i=1000525816381

“Facinant Extrême Orient" (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Cours d’histoire program
Publication: France Culture
Date: 6/6/2023
Abstract: Interview for “Facinant Extrême Orient”, a segment for the « Cours d’histoire » program on France Culture, 6 June 2023.
URL: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-cours-de-l-histoire/fascinant-extreme-orient-deambulation-au-musee-d-ennery-1405281



Associated Products

La Maison Langweil and Women’s Exchange of Asian Art in Fin-de-siècle Paris (Article)
Title: La Maison Langweil and Women’s Exchange of Asian Art in Fin-de-siècle Paris
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Asian studies in nineteenth-century France were dominated by men. The present article focuses upon a lesser-known cultural exchange that took place in shops and private drawing rooms, settings frequented largely by women, with a special focus on art dealer Florine Langweil.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/34298
Primary URL Description: Project Muse access
Secondary URL: https://espritcreateur.org/
Secondary URL Description: Esprit Createur
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Esprit Createur
Publisher: L'Esprit Createur

“Le Voile du bonheur: le brûle-parfum, objet de sociabilité à la fin du XIXe siècle en France.” (Article)
Title: “Le Voile du bonheur: le brûle-parfum, objet de sociabilité à la fin du XIXe siècle en France.”
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: The burning of incense plays a central role in Le Voile du bonheur (1901), a “Chinese-inspired” play by French politician Georges Clemenceau. This essay examines the ways in which Clemenceau, familiar with the cultural use of fragrance in Asia, played with literary stereotypes related to perfume in order to propose alternate models of sociability for a French nation wracked by political and religious turmoil.
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://www.revues.armand-colin.com/lettres-langues/litterature/litterature-ndeg-185-12017
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Litterature
Publisher: Armand Colin

“France-Asia: Cultural Identity and Creative Exchange” (Article)
Title: “France-Asia: Cultural Identity and Creative Exchange”
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Author: Aimee Boutin
Abstract: Introduction to special issue on Cultural Exchange and Creative Identity: France/Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Year: 2016
Primary URL: https://espritcreateur.org/issue/cultural-exchange-and-creative-identity-franceasia-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-centuries
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: L'Esprit Createur

“If I Were not a Writer I Would be an Interior Designer”: Radical Fin-de-siècle French Writer Homes (Hugo, Goncourt, Zola, and Loti) (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: “If I Were not a Writer I Would be an Interior Designer”: Radical Fin-de-siècle French Writer Homes (Hugo, Goncourt, Zola, and Loti)
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: For the conference “Interior Provocations: Radical Domesticities" held at Pratt University, New York, NY.
Date: 02/04/2017
Primary URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interior-provocations-radical-domesticities-symposium-tickets-28662513349#
Conference Name: “Interior Provocations: Radical Domesticities"

“Impact Factor”: Framing Scholarly Work for Wider Audiences (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: “Impact Factor”: Framing Scholarly Work for Wider Audiences
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Case study of two NEH-funded projects for an invited seminar at the University of Cambridge, England.
Date: 06/12/2017

The Musée d’Ennery and the Shifting Reception of Nineteenth-Century French Chinoiseries (Book Section)
Title: The Musée d’Ennery and the Shifting Reception of Nineteenth-Century French Chinoiseries
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Editor: Jennifer Milam
Editor: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Abstract: The essay examines contradictory responses to Paris-based Musée d’Ennery over a fifty-year period (1859–1909) to explore shifting French attitudes to "chinoiseries."
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/43/
Secondary URL: https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004387836/BP000016.xml?language=en
Book Title: Beyond Chinoiserie Artistic Exchange between China and the West during the Late Qing Dynasty (1796-1911)

Women Collectors of Japanese Prints: The 1909–14 Paris Expositions des estampes japonaises at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Book Section)
Title: Women Collectors of Japanese Prints: The 1909–14 Paris Expositions des estampes japonaises at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Editor: Britany Salsbury
Editor: Ruth Iskin
Abstract: Scholarly analysis of the French japoniste movement relies largely on the memoirs, private journals, and letters left by male artists, intellectuals, and businessmen such as Gaston Migeon, Raymond Koechlin, Tadamasa Hayashi, and Henri Cernuschi, who represented the collecting of Japanese prints, as an exclusive set of activities that took place among a small group of men behind closed doors. Such retrospective accounts, while nostalgic, have, I argue, falsely represented the Japanese print collecting world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by eliding the active role played by women collectors such as Florine Langweil, Louise-Marcelle Seure, Louise Curtis, and Mary A. Ainsworth, who also acquired and exchanged ukiyo-e prints. Analysis of archives from the Union Centrale des arts décoratifs, which acknowledge the participation of ten women in the six exhibits of Japanese prints held yearly from 1909-1914, serve as a basis for providing new models of female engagement with print collecting.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/49/
Secondary URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/collecting-prints-posters-and-ephemera-9781501338496/
Access Model: Subscription
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Book Title: Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera Perspectives in a Global World
ISBN: 9781501338519

Madame Desoye, "First Woman Importer" of Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Article)
Title: Madame Desoye, "First Woman Importer" of Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: The shop run by Madame Desoye at 220, rue de Rivoli in Paris is legendary in Japonisme studies thanks to the writings of Edmond de Goncourt and Philippe Burty, yet the iden-tity of the woman hidden behind this married name, like the extent of her participation in Japoniste activities, has long remained a mystery. The present article draws upon new archival research to provide information about the life of Louise Mélina Desoye, née Chopin (1836-1909) and her important contributions to the first wave of French Japonisme.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/54/
Secondary URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/joj/5/1/joj.5.issue-1.xml
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Japonisme
Publisher: Brill

Madame Chrysanthemeum's Sisters (Article)
Title: Madame Chrysanthemeum's Sisters
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: English translation of two articles published in the newspaper Le Temps by Adolphe Brisson in April and May 1900. They are dedicated to the twelve "geishas" brought from Japan to perform at the Panorama du Tour du monde, the "sisters" of Pierre Loti's “Madame Chrysanthemum” (the model for Puccini's Madama Butterfly). Brisson's interviews with a number of figures important for Japonisme (Hayashi and Bigot, in particular) provide insights into Franco-Japanese relations in 1900 and to the living and working conditions of foreign performers at the Paris Exposition.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/modernlang-literatures-facpubs/56/
Secondary URL: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=modernlang-literatures-facpubs
Access Model: Open access
Format: Other
Publisher: Montclair State Digital Commons

Appropriating Japonisme at the 1900 Exposition: Sada Yacco, Loie Fuller, and the 'Geishas' of Le Panorama du Tour du Monde (Article)
Title: Appropriating Japonisme at the 1900 Exposition: Sada Yacco, Loie Fuller, and the 'Geishas' of Le Panorama du Tour du Monde
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Japanese exhibits filled the 1900 Paris Exposition, from the official pavilion at the Trocadéro to ‘geishas' performing in the Panorama du Tour du Monde. The highlight for French reporters, however, was actress Sada Yacco's performances at the Théâtre Loïe Fuller on the rue de Paris. The former geisha joined American Fuller in creating original spectacles that captivated audiences not as Japanese ‘ethnography', as in other exhibits, but as ‘art’. This article draws attention to the rhetorical and commercial strategies used by these women to attract audiences to their own unique artistic performances of Japonisme, Western creations inspired by Japanese traditions.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EXX3NAYNGZYCWDG3TPDQ/full?target=10.1080/14787318.2020.1794449
Primary URL Description: Open Access
Secondary URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14787318.2020.1794449
Access Model: Limited open access and then subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Dix-Neuf
Publisher: Dix-Neuf

Reframing Japonisme : Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Book)
Title: Reframing Japonisme : Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: This volume brings to light the culturally important, yet largely forgotten activities of women such as Clémence d'Ennery (1823–1898), who began collecting Japanese and Chinese chimeras in the 1840s, built and decorated a house for them in the 1870s, and bequeathed the “Musée d'Ennery” to the state as a free public museum in 1893. A friend of the Goncourt brothers and a fifty-year patron of Parisian dealers of Asian art, d'Ennery's struggles to gain recognition as a collector and curator serve as a lens through which to examine the collecting and display practices of other women of her day. Travelers to Japan such as the Duchesse de Persigny, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Laure Durand- Fardel returned with souvenirs that they shared with friends and family. Salon hostesses including Juliette Adam, Louise Cahen d'Anvers, Princesse Mathilde, and Marguerite Charpentier provided venues for the discussion and examination of Japanese art objects, as did well-known art dealers Madame Desoye, Madame Malinet, Madame Hatty, and Madame Langweil. Writers, actresses, and artists-Judith Gautier, Thérèse Bentzon, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mary Cassatt, to name just a few- took inspiration from the Japanese material in circulation to create their own unique works of art. Largely absent from the history of Japonisme, the nineteenth-century fascination for Japanese art, these women-and many others-actively collected Japanese art, interacted with auction houses and art dealers, and formed collections now at the heart of museums such as the Louvre, the Musée Guimet, the Musée Cernuschi, the Musée Unterlinden, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reframing-japonisme-9781501344633/
Access Model: Purchase or library eBook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781501344657
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Women Dealers and Collectors of Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Women Dealers and Collectors of Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Abstract: Museums, libraries, and web sites celebrate the names of Philippe Sichel, Siegfried Bing, and Hayashi Tadamasa as “great dealers of Japanese art” and present them as the pioneers of the nascent Japan trade in France. In contrast, the names of Louise Chopin Desoye, Marie Antoinette Schlotterer Malinet, and Florine Ebstein Langweil have been largely lost to history, even when they informed and complemented the work of these better-known men. This lecture uses newly discovered archival material to emphasize the participation of women in the nineteenth-century Paris market for Japanese antiquities. It will raise questions about the socio-economic structures and stereotypes that have led to their disappearance and strategies for recovering their histories.
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Date: 09/21/2020
Location: Online (via London)
Primary URL: https://societyhistorycollecting.org/news-and-events/agm-2020/

Of Monsters and Women : Collecting Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Of Monsters and Women : Collecting Japanese Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Abstract: The Paris Musée d’Ennery owes its existence to a young woman who, in the 1840s, had an interest in acquiring the Chinese and Japanese “monsters” hidden in antique shops. Fifty years later, Clémence Lecarpentier d’Ennery bequeathed her collection of nearly 7,000 objects to the French state. Although she assembled these pieces and built a house and galleries to curate and display them, museum conservators posthumously erased her life’s work, presenting it instead as her husband’s achievement. This illustrated talk will present the museum, its collections and its history before teasing out some of the complicated social factors—among them class, gender, religion and nationalism—that led to the museum’s marginalization as a cultural institution.
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Date: 02/17/2020
Location: Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Primary URL: https://www.amherst.edu/news/calendar/node/763873

L’Usurpateur or La Sœur du soleil? Women Making History in Judith Gautier’s Novel of Old Japan. (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: L’Usurpateur or La Sœur du soleil? Women Making History in Judith Gautier’s Novel of Old Japan.
Abstract: The lecture brought new attention to the intertextual historicity of Judith Gautier’s L’Usurpateur/La Soeur du Soleil, a swashbuckling tale of old Old Japan.
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Date: 02/21/2020
Location: New York University, New York, NY
Primary URL: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/maisonfrancaise/events/2020/multilayered-history--intertextuality-in-19th-century-french-his.html

Reframing Japonisme, Conversation with Elizabeth Emery and Willa Silverman for the NCFS in Captivity virtual book series (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Reframing Japonisme, Conversation with Elizabeth Emery and Willa Silverman for the NCFS in Captivity virtual book series
Abstract: Discussion of NEH-sponsored book Reframing Japonisme.
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Date: 12/18/2020
Location: Online
Primary URL: https://ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-captivity/

Roundtable, "Re-writing Women into Art History" (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Roundtable, "Re-writing Women into Art History"
Abstract: Association for Art History, Annual Public Lecture: three presentations about women collectors, curators, and patrons followed by a roundtable discussion.
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Date: 12/3/2020
Location: Online
Primary URL: https://forarthistory.org.uk/news/events-search/

Dream Worlds’: Oriental Boutiques/Male Shoppers. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference (Enchantment/Disenchantment) (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Dream Worlds’: Oriental Boutiques/Male Shoppers. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference (Enchantment/Disenchantment)
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), with its emphasis on the seduction, domination, and financial exploitation of women customers by male businessmen, has become a paradigmatic example of nineteenth-century commerce (“Mouret avait l’unique passion de vaincre la femme”). This paper questions whether accepting Zola’s literary representation at face value has paradoxically reinforced for modern readers what was, in fact, a fantasy of gendered power dynamics. To what extent have Zola’s powerful literary tableaux distracted modern readers from an even more threatening male consumerism that took place in small shops where the “vaincus” were not women, but male shoppers who squandered family finances as they succumbed to the temptation of enchanting displays?
Date: 11/02/2019
Primary URL: https://ncfs2019.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/upcbnu1701/files/media/pdfs/French%20Studies%20Program.pdf
Conference Name: Nineteenth-Century French Studies

A Japoniste Friendship in Translation: Hayashi Tadamasa and Philippe Burty (1878–1890) (Article)
Title: A Japoniste Friendship in Translation: Hayashi Tadamasa and Philippe Burty (1878–1890)
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Art critic and collector Philippe Burty (1830–1890) was one of the first friends the Japanese interpreter (and future art dealer) Hayashi Tadamasa (1853–1906) made on arrival in Paris in 1878. The previously unknown letters translated into English within this essay present Hayashi’s work in Paris (1878) and Brussels (1880), his first impressions of Normandy (1882) and New York (1886), and his explanation of the evolution of Japanese painting (1885). They furnish valuable insights into the cross-cultural aesthetics that led the Japanese, the French, the British, the German, and Americans to collaborate in the development of the phenomenon now known as Japonisme, thereby filling in some of the information gaps surrounding Burty’s international networks and Hayashi’s early years in Europe.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: http://https://brill.com/view/journals/joj/6/1/article-p27_27.xml
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Japonisme
Publisher: Brill

Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France Elizabeth Emery, PhD, Professor of French at Montclair State University, will speak about her new book, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020). This Zoom webinar will be moderated by Rachel Saunders, PhD, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums, and recently elected member of the JASA Board of Directors. Although 19th- and early 20th-century women collectors actively bequeathed Japanese works to major museums like the Louvre, the Musée Guimet, the Musée Cernuschi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japonisme has long been considered the province of a small group of elite men. Dr. Emery’s book tells the forgotten stories of French women travelers, salon hostesses, writers, actresses and collectors who engaged with Japanese art alongside their better-known male contemporaries. In her talk for JASA, Dr. Emery will bring attention to a few of the figures discussed in the book, using Japanese works they once knew to tell their stories. Clémence d’Ennery (1823–1898), the founder of the Musée d’Ennery in Paris, which houses one of the largest collections of netsuke on permanent display, is a central figure. She began collecting Japanese and Chinese mythological creatures in the 1840s, built and decorated a house for them in the 1870s, and bequeathed the Paris-based “Musée d’Ennery” to the state as a free public museum in 1893. A friend of the Goncourt brothers and a fifty-year patron of Parisian dealers of Asian art, d’Ennery’s struggles to gain recognition as a collector and curator serve as a lens through which to examine the collecting and display practices of other women of her day. Note: Advance registration is required. Upon registration, you will receive a dedicated link to the program. Zoom will also send you a reminder one week before the event, one day before the event
Date: 05/12/21
Primary URL: https://www.japaneseartsoc.org/2021/05/lecture-reframing-japonisme-women-and-the-asian-art-market-in-nineteenth-century-france-dr-elizabeth-emery/
Primary URL Description: Recording
Conference Name: Japanese Art Society of America

Reframing Japonisme: Painting Edo and Beyond (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Reframing Japonisme: Painting Edo and Beyond
Abstract: How has Japonisme shaped the reception of Japanese art? In this online program, professors Elizabeth Emery and Chelsea Foxwell will consider the persistent influence of the western construct of Japonisme and the new aesthetic forms it inspired. In 1872, French art critic Philippe Burty coined the term “Japonisme” to refer to the growing western admiration for “all things Japanese.” European and American enthusiasm for Japanese exports led, however, to the creation of entirely new categories of Japanese “art” than those recognized in Japan. Elizabeth Emery, author of Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914 (Bloomsbury, 2020), will reassess the conceptual framework of Japonisme to ask: who has the right to create new aesthetic categories? Who and what do such classifications exclude? How have temporally specific cultural preferences shaped entire fields of study? Professor Emery’s presentation will be followed by a response from Chelsea Foxwell, a specialist in modern Japanese-style (Nihonga) painting, and a moderated conversation with curator Rachel Saunders.
Author: Chelsea Foxwell
Author: Rachel Saunders
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Date: 06/08/2021
Location: Harvard Art Museums/Zoom
Primary URL: https://harvardartmuseums.org/calendar/reframing-japonisme-painting-edo-and-beyond

Speaker for "Untold Stories: Women and the Asian Art Trade." (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Speaker for "Untold Stories: Women and the Asian Art Trade."
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: "Hidden Networks: The Trade of Asian Art" series sponsored by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, the Zentralarchiv (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Online. 30 September 2021.
Date Range: September 2021
Location: Online via Zoom
Primary URL: http://https://asia.si.edu/research/scholarly-programs/hidden-networks/

Roundtable participant for the Launch of the INHA ( Institut national de l’histoire de l’art) database: “Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d’art” (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Roundtable participant for the Launch of the INHA ( Institut national de l’histoire de l’art) database: “Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d’art”
Abstract: Launch of the INHA ( Institut national de l’histoire de l’art) database: “Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d’art” roundtable presentation and discussion (live). Paris, France. 12 October 2022. Recording: https://youtu.be/P3TUr-uoxl4
Date Range: October 2022
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/P3TUr-uoxl4

“Hidden Treasure: Finding Women Dealers and Collectors of Far Eastern Art in Paris, 1858-1914.” (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: “Hidden Treasure: Finding Women Dealers and Collectors of Far Eastern Art in Paris, 1858-1914.”
Abstract: A free public talk about her recent book Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and her participation in a digital humanities project with the National Institute (INHA) in Paris, “Connoisseurs, Collectors and Dealers of Asian Art in France, 1700-1939.”
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Date: 11/16/2022
Location: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Primary URL: https://uwm.edu/c21/event/elizabeth-emery-hidden-treasure/

“Invisibility Breeds Invisibility: Recovering Networks of Nineteenth-Century French Women Collectors of Japanese Art.” (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: “Invisibility Breeds Invisibility: Recovering Networks of Nineteenth-Century French Women Collectors of Japanese Art.”
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Talk to student and faculty of Bard Graduate Center about recovering the stories of women and people of color from historical archives in France. 31 January 2023
Date Range: 01/31/2022
Location: Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY

“Clémence d’Ennery" (Article)
Title: “Clémence d’Ennery"
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Commissioned bio-bibliographical essay for Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d'art asiatique en France 1700-1939, ed. Institut national de l’histoire de l’art, 12 October 2022. Online. French and English versions.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://agorha.inha.fr/detail/742
Secondary URL: https://agorha.inha.fr/detail/741
Access Model: Open access
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d'art asiatique en France 1700-1939, ed. Institut national de l’histoire de l’art
Publisher: Institut national de l’histoire de l’art

The Collection of Clémence d’Ennery. (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: The Collection of Clémence d’Ennery.
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: Open-access bilingual (French-English) information about D'Ennery and her museum. The repository contains a 350-page transcription of her collecting ledgers accompanied by an interpretive article and will host other material and translations in the future.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/dennery/

The Musée d’Ennery: Visualizing Nineteenth-Century Parisian Networks for the Circulation of East Asian Art (Article)
Title: The Musée d’Ennery: Visualizing Nineteenth-Century Parisian Networks for the Circulation of East Asian Art
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: This article uses data visualization tools to map French networks for the circulation of East Asian art based on information left by collector and museum founder Clemence d'Ennery. Online open-access publication.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://agorha.inha.fr/detail/868
Primary URL Description: Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d'art asiatique en France 1700-1939 - INHA
Format: Other
Publisher: Collectionneurs, collecteurs et marchands d'art asiatique en France 1700-1939 - INHA

Reframing Japonisme: Women’s Engagement with Japanese Art in 19th-Century France (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Reframing Japonisme: Women’s Engagement with Japanese Art in 19th-Century France
Author: Elizabeth Emery
Abstract: “Reframing Japonisme: Women’s Engagement with Japanese Art in 19th-Century France" presented as part of the Kyoto Lectures series of the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS), Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. Kyoto, Japan, 15 March 2023 (live).
Date: 03/15/2023
Primary URL: https://iseas-kyoto.org/eventi/lezioni
Primary URL Description: Kyoto Lectures event page
Secondary URL: https://iseas-kyoto.org/wprs/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/KL2303-pdf.jpg
Secondary URL Description: Event flyer
Conference Name: Kyoto Lectures