After a master's degree in general history of European art (BA /MA - 1995), a doctorate in Classical archeology (2001), archaeologist and researcher acitivities at the French School of Athens (1992-2005) and university teaching (art history, Greek archeology, history of Roman art), Laure Chevalier founded the firm AGALMATA Art advisory, in 2006.
As a certified expert in classical archeology since 2007 (member of the French Union of Experts (UFE), specialist in sculptures) and as CEO of AGALMATA, she studied and authenticated unique items of high heritage value, unpublished, unattribuated or indeterminate works, in various fields of European Arts. She did the inventory of private collections (one of them came from the succesion of the painter Charles Dufresne (1876 - 1938)). Since June 2016, she helped shaping private collections, and managed them as private curator.
Diversity of missions for more than 20 years (archaeological excavations, inventories and scientific reports and diagnosis, deliverance of certificates of authenticity, management of catering operations, advice on the transaction and purchase negotiations, physico-chemical analyzes direction), the specific nature of artworks with the status of unicum (without market or museum referents), to which is added the variety of fields of art invested, leads Laure Chevalier to think about the methods of investigation and expertise of works of art, methods she has taught for 10 years at the University of Paris Sorbonne (L2, L3, master 2, doctoral seminars), and at the University Panthéon-Assas (DU: University diploma expertise in artwork and Master II: methodology of expertise & art market law).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
2019 - NETCHER H2020, (Europe, coordination CNRS / Hisoma)
2018 - POLAR MERSI (ANR) coordination ENSP
2007 - French Union of Experts specialized in Antiquités and Works of art (UFE), certified member n°448
2003 - Centre d'archéologie générale (Anthropology of l'art) - at Sorbonne University
2002-2006 - CNU Section 21 -Qualified to the duties of Lecturer (Maître de conférences) in History, Civilisations, Archaeology and Arts in Ancient and Medieval Worlds
ACADEMIC REFERENCES
Ephorie d'Edessa (Greece), Centre d'Études Chypriotes (Louvre museum - department of oriental antiquities -, Pr. Olivier Masson / Annie F. Caubet), University of Nanterre, university of Thessalonique (Greece, Pella muséum), university of Nancy II, Drouot Formation, university of La Rochelle, Archaeological French School at Athens, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Centre d'archéologie générale, university of Panthéon-Assas Paris II, Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), École du Louvre
