Guillaume Faroult, senior curator at the Louvre Museum, is in charge of eighteenth-century French paintings as well as British and American paintings. He has edited La collection La Caze. Histoire des collections du musée du Louvre (Musée du Louvre Éditions, 2007) as well as Delicious Decadence: The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2014).
He has curated the following exhibitions: Turner et ses peintres (Grand Palais, 2009), L’Antiquité rêvée. Innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle (Louvre Museum, 2010), Fragonard amoureux. Galant et libertin (Paris, Luxembourg Museum, 2015), and Hubert Robert. Un peintre visionnaire (Louvre Museum, 2016). He is currently working on a book about eighteenth-century French painting and eroticism.
