Our Story
Agnès Penot, a French native, is a Los Angeles-based researcher with 15 years of experience specializing in nineteenth-century art and the art market
She received her Ph.D. from the Université Paris Sorbonne in 2012
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Getty Predoctoral Fellowship, as well as a Senior Fellowship at the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, New York, where she conducted research on the legacy of Goupil and Knoedler in America at the turn of the 20th century
As a Provenance Research Specialist, she taught a course for the American Society of Apraisers and is a Member of the International Society of Appraisers
What the Metropolitan Museum of Art says about her work (learn more)
Selected publications:
Books
La Maison Goupil: Le développement international d'une galerie d'art (1846-1884), Paris, Mare & Martin (2017)
L’Histoire des galeries d’art en France, Paris, Flammarion (2024)
Articles and Essays
“American Buying Power and Parisian Art Dealer Goupil & Cie”, in G. Feigenbaum, S. van Ginhoven, E. Sterrett, Money in the Air, Art Dealers, America and the International Art Market, 1880-1930, Getty publications (2024)
“A missed opportunity? La Maison Goupil and Old Master Picture Dealing”, in Susanna Avery-Quash and Barbara Pezzini Ed., A Worldwide Market for Old Masters between the Napoleonic Era and the Great Depression, Bloombsury (2020)
“Paul Gauguin: Businessman or Starving Artist?” in Gauguin, a Spiritual Journey (co-author Léa Saint- Raymond), exh. cat. De Young Museum San Francsico (2018)
“The Perils and Perks of Trading Art Overseas: Goupil’s New York branch,” in 19th Century Art Worldwide, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2017). learn more
