Biographie de Neil Jeffares
Neil Jeffares is an independent art historian. He writes and lectures on French eighteenth century portraiture, and has published articles on artists such as Murice-Quentin de La Tour and Rosalba Carriera in journals ranging from the British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. He participated in the Colloque scientique international to mark the tercentenary of La Tour and co-authored (with Pierre Rosenberg), the catalogue of pastels at the musée Condé, Chantilly.
Pierre Rosenberg, of the Académie française, conservateur général du patrimoine, was president-directeur du musée du Louvre between 1994 and 2001. He has arranged numerous exhibitions and published articles on all aspects of French and Italian drawing and painting of the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries.