About me
Emmanuelle Largeteau graduated in 2013 from the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne in book and paper conservation, after completing internships in the Library of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin (USA) and at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Netherlands). After 9 months at the conservation department of the Trinity College Library in Dublin as the Heritage Council conservation intern, she joined National Museums Scotland as assistant paper conservator in 2014 to support the reopening of Art, Design and Fashion galleries. She joined the National Maritime Museum in 2015 where she worked until 2023 as a conservator and as the paper conservation manager from 2018. She presented a paper on technical examination of artist’s materials and techniques in 18th century John Russell pastels from the RMG collection, at the 2017 IADA conference in collaboration with Clara de la Peña McTigue and was the primary conservation advisor on the Getty Paper Project: A Sea of Drawings: Unlocking the Van de Velde Studio at the Queen’s House, Greenwich, 2023. She joined the National Portrait Gallery in July 2023 as the conservation manager for works on paper and photographs, where she is the main conservation liaison for lights.
