Fantasy

Femke Speelberg

July 31, 2013

2 min. watch

“That’s what I love about works on paper: the only restriction is your own genius.”

Curator Femke Speelberg on French artist Ennemond Alexandre Petitot’s eighteenth-century Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées].

Femke Speelberg
Curator of Historic Ornament, Design, and Architecture Department of Drawings and Prints

Photography by Juan Trujillo

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