Podcast: Researching Nineteenth-Century Art Objects in Lima and New Orleans

Art History graduate students Daen Palma Huse (University College London) and Lucia Olubunmi (Yale University) met thanks to the Yale UCL Collaborative Student Exchange Programme. They have chosen two nineteenth-century art objects that each showcase a female protagonist – a painting and a set of ephemeral paper cards – to share their research that uncovers histories in Lima and New Orleans. This podcast highlights issues around accessibility of artworks for researchers, narratives around identity, race, class, and the way artworks may change over time, affecting the writing and re-writing of diverse histories. Lucia and Daen underline the importance of interdisciplinary enquiry and collaboration for their individual research projects and share some of their valuable experiences as graduate students.

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Carlos Fabbri, cards from promotional playing card deck produced for the tobacco brand El Perú by Roldan y Compañia, Peru, c. 1890, chromolithographic print by Fabbri Hermanos, Peru, 35 x 55 mm

Photograph courtesy of Simon Wintle

LinkFrançois Fleischbein (b. Bavaria, 1804–1868), Portrait of a Free Woman of Color (or Woman in a Gold Tignon), 1837, oil on canvas, 71.7 x 56.5.cm (28 ¼ x 22 ¼ inches), Historic New Orleans Collection, 1985.212