Monique Barbier

Monique Barbier has a degree specializing in research for art and archeology from the Sorbonne with a concentration in 16th-century French painting. She also has degrees from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Versailles. She enjoys painting, reading and horse back riding.

Monique has done archival research and writing for exhibition catalogues, along with Anne Poulet, former Director of the Frick Collection, on subjects such as the French sculptors Clodion (1992) and Houdon (2003-2004, exhibition in Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Versailles).

Along with Anne Poulet, Monique has organized numerous Seminars in French Architecture and Decorative Arts for French Heritage Society for the promotion and deepening of the knowledge of French culture for American curators, professors and art connoisseurs. The Seminar program began in 1989 and concentrates on intensive study of important sites in France under privileged conditions with the collaboration of architects, art historians and curators.

Subjects have included: The Château of Fontainebleau (1989); Romanesque Architecture on the Route to Compostello (1991); 18th-Century Bordeaux (1994); The Silk Industry in Lyon (1996); Art Nouveau in Nancy ((1999) and The Château of Versailles in the 17th and 18th Centuries (2008) among others.