Amy Marquis
Research Assistant, Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints
Amy Marquis works as a Research Assistant in the Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Most recently she worked on the major exhibition, Degas: A Passion for Perfection (3 October 2017 – 14 January 2018 at the Fitzwilliam Muesum and at Denver Art Museum 11 February – 20 May 2018) and she curated the concurrent exhibition Degas’s Drinker: Portraits by Marcellin Desboutin (19 September 2017 – 25 February 2018). Amy has run the Graham Robertson Study Room since May 2010.
Amy completed a BA (Hons) in History of Art and Architecture at the University of East Anglia (2006) and an MPhil in History of Art at the University of Cambridge (2008). For her MPhil, Amy worked on French Symbolist art, with a focus on Odilon Redon and his series of prints based on Flaubert’s Temptation of Saint Anthony. Since starting the Fitzwilliam Museum, she has curated several exhibitions of prints and drawings. Amy regularly teaches and supervises for the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge.
Research Interests
French art of the nineteenth century, particularly Symbolism; Edgar Degas; Rembrandt’s printmaking; the etching revival; early lithography; illustration; image and text relationships; William Blake; British watercolours
Recent/Major Publications
Sole-authored
Amy Marquis, Marcellin Desboutin: Drypoints, Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 2017
Amy Marquis, ‘White’ in Beauty Papers, Summer 2015
Contributor
Jane Munro, Anne Lyles, Ian Warrell and Amy Marquis, Watercolour: Elements of Nature, Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 2015
Online Publications
Intimate Objects: British Portraits from Smart to Spencer in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Lumière: Lithographs by Odilon Redon online exhibition
Exhibitions
Curator
Degas’s Drinker: Portraits by Marcellin Desboutin, 19 September 2017 – 25 February 2018
1816: Prints by Goya, Turner and Cornelius, 9 September 2016 – 31 July 2016
Modern Heroism: Printmaking a the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte, 3 February – 28 June 2015
From Root to Tip: Botanical art in Britain, 28 January - 11 May 2014
Fashioning Switzerland: Portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries, 4 June 2013 - 22 September 2013
Lumière: Lithographs by Odilon Redon, 22 September 2009 - 10 January 2010
Assistant
Degas: A Passion for Perfection, 3 October 2017 – 14 January 2018 (and at Denver Art Museum 11 February – 20 May 2018)
Watercolour: Elements of Nature, 16 June – 27 September 2015
