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The FARMO Scholarship

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Call for 2025-2027 Doctoral Scholarship Candidates*

*(submissions closing 09/30/2024)

In order to support the research objectives of the public establishments of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the Fondation des Amis pour le Rayonnement des Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie (FARMO), under the auspices of the Fondation de France, has launched a scholarship for doctoral students in art history.

The FARMO Scholarship

The FARMO is renewing its triannual doctoral scholarship supporting a young researcher for the duration of three years (2024-2026). This scholarship fits into the prefiguration of the Orsay Museum’s ‘Centre de Ressources et Recherches (Center of Resources and Research or CRR) – Daniel Marchesseau.’ In 2022, three doctoral students were selected for the first edition of the FARMO Scholarship.

The yearly bonus amounts to 10 000 €, over a non-renewable period of three years.

The subject of the thesis will be focused on one of the six areas of research covered by the CRR, on the period ranging from mid-19^th century to the First World War:

Scientific study of the collections and archives of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums
History of the exhibitions, collections, art market and art criticism
Material and genetic history of works
Women in art (artists, critics, collectors, models, etc.)
Impressionism
Identities and transnational cultural relations

The thesis project will aim to produce scientific resources (catalogues, inventories, reports, monographs, correspondence, critical publications, databases, etc.) constituting documentary instruments for future research.

The laureate will benefit from a workplace and privileged access to the CRR’s resources, the EPMO’s collections, as well as its scientific teams for personal research projects.

The laureate will be asked to present the advancements in their research to the scientific teams of the EPMO, the executive committee of the FARMO, and if applicable, to the Patron associated with the scholarship.

The thesis may or may not already be defined, but university registration must be possible during the scholarship’s three consecutive years. The laureate is committed to the completion of the thesis within two years following the scholarship’s termination.

No nationality-based conditions are in effect, though candidates from non-French-speaking countries must prove their academic, oral and written levels in French.

The laureate will be selected by a jury composed of the FARMO’s president or his representative, the director of conservation and collections, the head of CRR, a conservator from the EPMO, as well as three HDR teacher-researchers specialized in the period, of which at least one holds a role in a Parisian or regional educational or research institution.

Candidates must submit a completed application.

The FARMO Scholarship: 2023 Laureates

Emma Dechorgnat is the recipient of the FARMO Scholarship with the support of François de Ricqlès for her dissertation titled “Frederick Hollyer (1838–1933) and the Photographic Dissemination of British Art in France”, conducted at the École du Louvre and the École Doctorale 131 of the Université de Paris Cité, under the supervision of Caroline Corbeau-Parsons and Frédéric Ogée.
Nina Meisel is a recipient of the FARMO Scholarship for her dissertation titled “Fine Arts and Decorative Arts: Toward a Comparative History of the Trajectories of Women in Fine Arts and Industrial Arts (1860–1914)”, conducted at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Bertrand Tillier.
Lucie Montassier is a recipient of the FARMO Scholarship for her dissertation titled “Travel and Residence in Italy by European and American Women Sculptors (1850–1914)”, conducted at Université de Poitiers, under the supervision of Claire Barbillon.

As part of a partnership with the Malatier-Jacquet Foundation, housed within the Fondation de France, FARMO has awarded a fourth scholarship, under the same financial support conditions (€10,000 per year for three years), to Manon Lebreton for her dissertation titled “Gender and Historiography: Women Artists in Art Discourse from 1860 to 1928”, conducted at the École du Louvre and the CNRS, under the supervision of Michela Passini.

Additionally, thanks to the support of Daniel Marchesseau, a special grant of €10,000 for one year has been awarded to Maximin Cousy Barbereau for his dissertation titled “Censorship and Political Control of the Arts in the Republic (1870–1914)”, conducted at Sciences Po, Centre d’Histoire, under the supervision of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac.

The jury for this inaugural scholarship consisted of:

François Blanchetière, Chief Curator at the Musée d’Orsay,
Laurent Bourgois, President of FARMO,
Laure Chabanne, Chief Curator of Painting at the Musée d’Orsay,
Rossella Froissart, Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études,
Paul Perrin, Director of Conservation and Collections,
Julie Ramos, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Strasbourg,
Julie Verlaine, Senior Lecturer (HDR) in Contemporary Cultural History at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The FARMO Scholarship: 2022 Laureates

Clémence Rinaldi, for her thesis on “Salons of one’s own: separatist strategy and feminine solidarity in artistic circles at the turn of the century (19^th-20^th centuries),” completed at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the direction of Pascal Rousseau and Julie Ramos (University of Strasbourg).
Camille Philippon, for her thesis on “Louis Vauxcelles (1900-1914): the beginnings of an art critic on the pre-war Parisian scene,” completed at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the direction of Marie Gispert and Catherine Méneux.

The jury wished to award an exceptional, one-year scholarship to Héléna Lichy for having contributed to the completion of her thesis dedicated to “Jules Jacquemart (1837-1880),” carried out within the dual framework of the Doctoral School 395 of Paris-Nanterre under the direction of Rémi Labrusse and a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre’s third cycle, under the direction of Manuela Moscatiello.

Moreover, in partnership with the Fondation Malatier-Jacquet under the auspices of the Fondation de France, the FARMO granted a third scholarship, awarded with the same financial conditions (10 000 € per year, over three years) to: Oriane Poret, “Rosa Bonheur’s quest for the animal model (1822-1899). Travels, networks, collections,” completed at the Lumière Lyon 2 University under the direction of Laurent Baridon, within the scope of LARHRA UMR 5190, Institute of Human Sciences.

The jury of this first scholarship is composed of:

François Blanchetière, Chief Conservator of the Orsay Museum
Laurent Bourgois, President of the FARMO
Laure Chabanne, Chief Conservator of Painting at the Orsay Museum
Rossella Froissart, Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Paul Perrin, Director of Conservation and the Collections
Julie Ramos, Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Strasbourg
Julie Verlaine, HDR Lecturer in Contemporary Cultural History at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University