Annick Lemoine, who holds a PhD in art history from the Sorbonne, is director of the Petit Palais in Paris. She previously directed the Musée Cognacq-Jay and the Department of Art History at the French Academy in Rome. She has published numerous articles on Italian painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the fortunes of Caravaggio and the painting of the Caravaggists, besides authoring Nicolas Régnier (ca. 1588- 1667), alias Niccolò Renieri. Peintre, collectionneur et marchand d’art (2007). Among other exhibitions, she has curated Les Bas-fonds du Baroque. La Rome du vice et de la misère /I bassifondi del Barocco. La Roma del vizio e della miseria (with F. Cappelletti, Paris and Rome, 2014) and Valentin de Boulogne. Réinventer Caravage /Valentin de Boulogne. Beyond Caravaggio (with K. Christiansen, Paris and New York, 2017).