Charlotte Ribeyrol Professor of 19th century English Literature, Sorbonne Université, VALE 4085PI of the ERC project CHROMOTOPE (2019-24)Honorary curator, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Présentation

My main field of research is Victorian Hellenism and the reception of the colours of the past in 19th-century painting and literature. My first monograph entitled ‘Etrangeté, passion, couleur’, L’hellénisme de Swinburne, Pater et Symonds came out in 2013. In 2014-2016 I co-directed a major interdisciplinary project on chromatic materiality (POLYRE, IDEX Sorbonne Universités) with chemists and archeologists, which led to the publication of a collection of essays entitled The Colours of the Past in Victorian England (Peterlang, Oxford, 2016). Following my Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford (2016-2018), I was awarded an ERC consolidator grant for my project CHROMOTOPE (2019-2024) which explores the 19th century ‘chromatic turn’. My monograph on the Victorian architect and chromophile William Burges entitled William Burges’s Great Bookcase (1859-62) and the Victorian Colour Revolution was published by Yale University Press in June 2023. As part of this research project, I am also the lead curator of the major exhibition Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design (Ashmolean Museum, Sept. 2023-Feb. 2024)

Publications

Article dans une revue (15)

Colour Charlotte Ribeyrol Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2024, 100 Automne, ⟨10.4000/132r0⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05316333v1
Colour Translation and Aniline Exchanges in the Early History of Japonisme Stefano M. Evangelista,Charlotte Ribeyrol Japonisumu kenkyû ジャポニスム研究 / Studies in Japonisme, 2024, 44 Article dans une revue hal-05316390v1
Colour reception(s): The Narrative of the Exhibition “Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design” (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21 September 2023-18 February 2024) Charlotte Ribeyrol Sillages Critiques, 2024, 36, ⟨10.4000/120ml⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05316327v1
Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited Charlotte Ribeyrol Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2023, 97 Printemps, ⟨10.4000/cve.12794⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05316320v1
Matières noires, sens et substances 2 Charlotte Ribeyrol Technè, 2023, 56, ⟨10.4000/techne.18085⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05316369v1
Verdeurs : Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, and the Colors of Decadence Charlotte Ribeyrol Victorian Literature and Culture, 2021, 49 (4), pp.753-775. ⟨10.1017/S1060150320000261⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03680503v1
‘The golden stain of time’: remembering the colours of Amiens Cathedral Charlotte Ribeyrol Word and Image, 2020, 36 (1), pp.37-47. ⟨10.1080/02666286.2019.1651996⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03680505v1
The changing colours of nineteenth-century art and literature Charlotte Ribeyrol Word and Image, 2020, 36 (1), pp.1-6. ⟨10.1080/02666286.2019.1651593⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03680504v1
John Singer Sargent and the fin de siècle Culture of Mauve Charlotte Ribeyrol Visual Culture in Britain, 2018, New Perspectives on the Works of John Singer Sargent, 19 (1), pp.6-26. ⟨10.1080/14714787.2018.1447992⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02442687v1
« ‘A world of material splendour’: Walter Pater and the paradox of Greek sculptural polychromy ». Charlotte Ribeyrol Kermes : arte e tecnica del restauro, 2018, 101-102 Article dans une revue hal-03889130v1
Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics Charlotte Ribeyrol Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World, 2017, 4, ⟨10.4000/angles.1548⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03886594v1
“Gleaming with gold and blue and cinnabar”: William Morris’s Colourful Revision of the Myth of the Golden Fleece Charlotte Ribeyrol Polysèmes, 2016, 15, ⟨10.4000/polysemes.809⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03886575v1
“Poetic Podophilia: Gautier, Baudelaire, Swinburne, and Classical Foot Fetishism” Charlotte Ribeyrol Journal of Victorian Culture, 2015 Article dans une revue hal-02442696v1
‘The Feet of Love’: Pagan Podophilia from A.C. Swinburne to Isadora Duncan Charlotte Ribeyrol Miranda : Revue pluridisciplinaire sur le monde anglophone. Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world , 2015, 11, ⟨10.4000/miranda.6847⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03886555v1
‘It’s bawdier in Greek’: A.C. Swinburne’s Subversions of the Hellenic Code Charlotte Ribeyrol Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2013, 78 Automne, ⟨10.4000/cve.897⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03886585v1

N°spécial de revue/special issue (4)

Matières noires, sens et substances, 1 Agnès Lattuati-Derieux,Charlotte Ribeyrol,Arlen Heginbotham Technè, 55, 2023, ⟨10.4000/techne.16939⟩ N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-05316350v1
Antique Bodies in Nineteenth Century British Literature and Culture Caroline Bertonèche,Charlotte Ribeyrol Miranda : Revue pluridisciplinaire sur le monde anglophone. Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world , 11, 2015 N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-02017745v1
Paganism in Late Victorian Britain Charlotte Ribeyrol,Claire Masurel-Murray Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 80, 2014, ⟨10.4000/cve.1451⟩ N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-03886565v1
Paganism in Late Victorian Britain Luc Bouvard,Claire Masurel-Murray,Charlotte Ribeyrol Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 80 (Automne), s.p., 2014 N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-03054907v1

Ouvrages (11)

Polychromie. Regards croisés sur l’usage, l’emploi et la matérialité de la polychromie dans les sociétés anciennes Vincent Baillet,Corentin Cou,Xavier Granier,Romain Pacanowski,Aurélie Mounieret al. Ausonius Editions. Un@ éditions, 9, https://una-editions.fr/polychromie-societes-anciennes/, 2025, Archéovision - Virtual Retrospect, Rémy Chapoulie, 978-2-35613-457-8. ⟨10.46608/archeovision1.9782356134554⟩ Ouvrages hal-05370974v1
John Singer Sargent : Le beau monde et son revers Charlotte Ribeyrol,Isabelle Gadoin,Emily Eells Cohen & Cohen, 2025 Ouvrages hal-05316398v1
William Burges's Great Bookcase and The Victorian Colour Revolution Charlotte Ribeyrol Yale University Press, 2023, 0300267975 Ouvrages hal-04268465v1
The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination Charlotte Ribeyrol,Adeline Grand-Clément Bloomsbury, 2021 Ouvrages hal-03889138v1
Arcs-en-ciel et couleurs Adeline Grand-Clément,Charlotte Ribeyrol,Jean-Baptiste Eczet,Arnaud Dubois CNRS, 2018 Ouvrages hal-01800850v1
Arcs-en-ciel et couleurs : regards comparatifs Arnaud Dubois,Jean-Baptiste Eczet,Adeline Grand-Clément,Charlotte Ribeyrol CNRS éditions, 2018 Ouvrages hal-03889147v1
“Testing New Opinions”: New Perspectives on Walter Pater Charlotte Ribeyrol,Martine Lambert-Charbonnier,Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada Routledge, 2017 Ouvrages hal-03889154v1
« Curiously testing new opinions ». New perspectives on Walter Pater Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada,Bénédicte Coste,Charlotte Ribeyrol,Martine Lambert-Charbonnier Routledge, 2017, Among the Victorians and Modernists, 9780367346454 Ouvrages hal-05349784v1
The Colours of the Past in Victorian England Charlotte Ribeyrol 2016 Ouvrages hal-02442713v1
Alma-Tadema y la pintura victoriana en la Colección Pérez Simón, cat. exp. [musée Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 25 juin - 5 octobre 2014] Véronique Gerard-Powell,Charlotte Ribeyrol Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza, 209 p, 2014 Ouvrages halshs-01366776v1
« Étrangeté, passion, couleur », L’hellénisme de Swinburne, Pater et Symonds (1865-1880). Charlotte Ribeyrol 2013 Ouvrages hal-02442717v1

Chapitre d'ouvrage (9)

Retrouver les couleurs du passé à l’ère des colorants d’aniline, une étude de cas : la Grande Bibliothèque de William Burges (1859-1862) Charlotte Ribeyrol Ausonius Editions. Polychromie. Regards croisés sur l’usage, l’emploi et la matérialité de la polychromie dans les sociétés anciennes, 2025 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05316411v1
‘The Gothic school of colour’: Reviving the Hues of the Middle Ages Charlotte Ribeyrol Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, Ashmolean Museum, 2023, 978-1_910807-57-6 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05421164v1
The Age of Colour&quot; : Victorian Britain (1837-1901) Charlotte Ribeyrol,Matthew Winterbottom Charlotte Ribeyrol; Matthew Winterbottom; Madeline Hewitson. Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, Ashmolean Museum, pp.17-30, 2023, 978-1910807576 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04268497v1
‘Wedding archaeology with art’: The Rediscovery of Ancient Polychromy Charlotte Ribeyrol Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, Ashmolean Museum, 2023, 978-1_910807-57-6 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05421171v1
Objects in Focus: Fin-de-siècle Tanagras Charlotte Ribeyrol Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2023, 978-1_910807-57-6 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05421193v1
Colour for Colour's Sake Stefano M. Evangelista,Charlotte Ribeyrol Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design, Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2023, 978-1_910807-57-6 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05421185v1
Religion and Ritual Charlotte Ribeyrol A cultural history of color in the age of industry VOLUME 5: A Cultural history of color in the age of industry, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03680501v1
« From Galatea to Tanagra: Victorian translations of the controversial colours of Greek sculpture » Charlotte Ribeyrol Hellenomania, Routledge, 2017 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03889159v1
« Hellenic utopias: Walter Pater and Pausanias ». Charlotte Ribeyrol Charles Martindale; Stefano Evangelista; Elizabeth Prettejohn. Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism., Oxford University Press, 2017 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03889163v1