Charles Francois Le Tellier (1743–probably 1800) after Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818), Anne Vallayer-Coster, ca. 1783.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979.25.6
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979.25.6
KELSEY BROSNAN, PH.D.
EDUCATION
Rutgers University
Ph.D, Art History, 2018
Dissertation: "Seductive Surfaces: The Still Life Paintings of Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744–1818)"
Barnard College of Columbia University
B.A. Art History, 2011
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History, 2021-Present
Pratt Institute
Christie's, Inc.
- Writer, 20th Century Evening Sale, 2021-Present
- Cataloguer, Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale, 2019-2021
Doris Zemurray Stone Curatorial Fellow for European Art, 2017-2019
New Orleans Museum of Art
- "Bodies of Knowledge"
- June 29th - October 13th, 2019
- "Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art"
- April 10, 2019 - July 14, 2019
- "The Orléans Collection"
- October 25, 2018 - January 28, 2019
- "Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored"
- April 19 - September 3rd, 2018
- "Women in Art" Mobile Guide Tour
- May 2018 [Sponsored by NOLA4Women]
Lecturer, Art History Department, 2016-2017
University of Vermont
Research Assistant, 2013-2016
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints
- "Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant - Works from New York Collections"
- October 6, 2016 - January 8, 2017
Graduate Research Assistant, Summer 2016
David Zwirner, New York
Ayesha Bulchandani-Mathrani Graduate Intern, Spring 2015
The Frick Collection, Education Department
- "Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France"
- February 25 - May 17, 2015
Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Intern, Summer 2013
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Graduate Intern, Fall 2012
The Morgan Library & Museum, Department of Drawings and Prints
Archival Intern, Summer 2012
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Research Assistant, Spring 2011
Hammer Galleries, New York
Online Auctions Intern, Summer 2010
Artnet, New York
Collections Intern, AIDS Graphic Archive, Fall 2009
International Center of Photography (ICP), New York
Accessories Intern, Summer 2009
Vogue Magazine
COURSES TAUGHT
PRATT INSTITUTE (2021-PRESENT)
- History of Interior Design (graduate seminar and undergraduate lecture)
- Themes in Art and Culture I and II
PACE UNIVERSITY (2024)
- Art History: Renaissance to Modern
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT (2016-2017)
- Art and Feminism
- Digital Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Art
- Impressionism
- Methods and Theories of Art History
- Optical Media: Episodes from the History of Photography and Film
- Western Art: Renaissance to Modern
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (2014-2016)
- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Art: Rococo to Impressionism
- Impressionism
- Introduction to Art History
- Expository Writing
PUBLICATIONS
Academic Publications
Anne Vallayer-Coster, Lund Humphries and Getty Publications [forthcoming, 2025]
Illuminating Women Artists Series
“Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral,” Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe, edited by Arlene Weis and Kacie Willis, London: Routledge, September 2020
"La femme à la chasse: Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Paintings of the Hunt." Rutgers Art Review, vol. 36, April 2020
Review of Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France by Joseph Baillio, Katharine Baetjer, and Paul Lang, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 15, no. 2 (Autumn 2016)
“The Female Body in the Jardin du Luxembourg,” Collegiate Journal of Art, Dartmouth University, Spring 2011
Exhibition Catalogues
“Contemporary Art at the Palais-Royal,” "Chronology" and Checklist Provenance
Vanessa I. Schmid, The Orléans Collection, London: D. Giles Limited and the New Orleans Museum of Art, 2018
“Chronology,” “Fragonard’s Brown Wash Landscapes,” and “Fragonard’s Illustrations for Orlando Furioso,”
Perrin Stein, Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016
Blogs
"Seductive Surfaces: Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Vase of Flowers and Conch Shell at the Met," Art Herstory, December 21, 2020
"Q&A: Shirin Neshat," Bodies of Knowledge Exhibition Blog, New Orleans Museum of Art, July 3, 2019
"The Orléans Picture Sales in London," The Orléans Collection Exhibition Blog, New Orleans Museum of Art, January 7, 2019
"Assembly of the Gods: Antoine Coypel's epic commission for the Duke of Orléans," The Orléans Collection Exhibition Blog, New Orleans Museum of Art, January 4, 2019
"Roslin, The Artist and His Wife, 1767," and "Still Life with Seashells and Coral, 1769," Digital Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Art Class Blog, University of Vermont Department of Art & Art History, Spring 2017
“A Mysterious Journey to Fragonard’s Island of Love,” Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant Exhibition Blog, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 30, 2016
PRESENTATIONS
Of Women and War: Anne Vallayer-Coster’s "Bust of Minerva with Military Attributes”
College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, February 2022.
Flowers, Fluids, and Femininity: The Olfactory Texture of Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Flower Paintings
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, Denver, March 21, 2019
The Orléans Collection and the New Orleans Tricentennial (1718-2018)
Roundtable: Engaging Twenty-First-Century Publics: Innovations in Teaching, Advising, Exhibiting, and Curating
HECAA (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture) Conference, November 1-4, 2018
Les Académiciennes and the Male Nude
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting, Orlando, March 22, 2018
Seductive Surfaces in Anne Vallayer Coster's Still Life with Seashells and Coral (1769)
A Symposium on the History of Art, The Frick Collection, April 16, 2016
Anne Vallayer Coster and the Enlightened Still Life
David Nichol Smith Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies XV, University of Sydney, Australia, December 10, 2014
Pregnant Space: Edgar Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”
Fourth Annual Feminist Art History Conference, American University, November 8, 2013
Fabric and Flesh in Francois Boucher's “Bath” and “Toilet of Venus”
The Collecting Impulse: Graduate Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 8, 2013
Tea with Mary Cassatt in the MFA’s Art of the Americas Wing
American Material Culture: Graduate Symposium, Boston University, March 22, 2013
Misidentified: Courbet's “Woman in a Riding Habit (L'Amazone)”
Defacing the Portrait: Graduate Symposium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 2, 2012
HONORS AND AWARDS
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) Travel Bursary, November 2018
The Attingham Trust Eighteenth-Century French Studies Scholarship, Summer 2018
Expository Writing TAship, Rutgers University English Department 2015-2016
Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University Art History Department, Fall 2011-2015
Cowdrey Summer Research Grant, Rutgers University Art History Department, Summer 2014
Art History Department Honors, Barnard College, Spring 2011
Joseph Bracone Memorial Scholarship, Sons of Italy , Spring 2010
Susan Weis Mindel ’66 Art Internship Grant, Fall 2009
Barnard College Dean’s List, Barnard College, 2008-2011
National Merit Scholarship, Aon Corporation, Spring 2007