Carole Nataf, “Peripatetic Painting: Jean-Baptiste Prévost’s Partridges and the Circum-Atlantic Networks of Gum Arabic, 1785-1788” (under review)
Carole Nataf, “Woven Worlds: The Materiality of Empire in the Nouvelles Indes Gobelins Tapestries (1737–41),” The Art Bulletin (accepted for publication)
Carole Nataf, “Rococo Epistemology: Shell grottos and the Aesthetics of Deep Time in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon’s theory of the earth,” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 49, no. 1 (2026): 85–112, https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.70018
Carole Nataf, “Commercial Space and Amateur Identity in Eighteenth-Century Paris: At Gilles Demarteau’s Print Shop ‘La Cloche’,” Immediations, no.6 (2021): 23–41
Carole Nataf, “The Art of Transparency: Visualizing Eighteenth-Century Gum Arabic, from West-African Forests to European Art Studios”, Material Metamorphosis, Natural Resources, Artmaking, and Sustainability in the Early Modern World, ed. Louise Arizzoli and Susanna Caviglia. Turnhout: Brepols (under review)
Carole Nataf, “Molding Metaphors: Comte de Buffon’s ‘moule interieur’ and the Art of Casting Porcelain and Bronze in Eighteenth-Century France,” in Fabriquer le(s) matérialisme(s) (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles) / Making Early Modern Materialism(s), ed. Jennifer Oliver and Isabelle Moreau Viltard (under review)
Carole Nataf, “Tasteful Science and Networks of Knowledge at the Jardin du Roi: Madeleine Françoise Basseporte’s Shell Paintings on Vellum (1747–68)”, Images and Institutions: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Scientific Societies, ed. Matthijs Jonker and Katherine Reinhart. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. https://www.brepolsonline.net/content/books/10.1484/M.HMSBA-EB.5.157018
Carole Nataf, “Flaunting Red and Blue: Reframing the Nouvelles Indes Tapestries through Gobelins Dyestuffs,” The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust (February 13, 2026).
Carole Nataf, “Land and Loom: Louis de Noailles’ Nouvelles Indes tapestries,” Colonial Networks (February, 2026), https://www.colonialnetworks.org/?p=941.
Carole Nataf, “Le Recueil de plantes copiées d’après nature par Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1736–1785),” La Revue de la BNU, 26 | 2022, 58–61
2026 “From Senegal to Parisian Salons: The Shiny Invisibility of Gum Arabic,” CAA 114th Annual Conference, Hilton Chicago, 18-21 February
2026 “Artisanal Epistemologies and ‘Useful Knowledge’ in the Sèvres porcelain Service aux oiseaux (1779–1796),” Making Early Modern Materialism(s), ENS de Lyon, January 30–31
2023 “Gum Arabic: Visualizing Transparency in Charles-Nicolas Cochin’s engraving ‘Arabs and Moors trading gums in Senegal’ (1746),” Europe c. 1580–c. 1830: Telling Histories, Imagining Futures, The Courtauld Institute, October 27
2023 “Rococo epistemology: Shell grottos and the aesthetics of deep time in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's theory of the earth,” HECAA@30: Environments, Materials, and Futures in the Eighteenth Century, Boston, Cambridge, and Providence, October 12–14
2023 “Rococo epistemology: Shells, deep time, and imagination in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's theory of the earth,” The Courtauld Third Year PhD Symposium, The Courtauld Institute, May 18–19
2022 “Transporting America: The politics of import and export in the New Indies Gobelins tapestry set,” Transporting Culture – Art, Objects, and ‘Early Modern Logistics, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) Zoom Event Series, October
2022 “Drawing shells: Conchological expertise at the Jardin du Roi and the Académie des Sciences,” Images & Institutions: The Visual Culture of Early Modern Scientific Societies, Accademia dei Lincei, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), and Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, September
2022 “Cataloguing the Courtauld’s fictile ivories,” Carole Nataf and Bella Radenovic, The Courtauld’s Fictile Ivories Study Day, Somerset House, London, June
2022 “Nature Transformed: Manufacturing America in the New Indies Gobelins Tapestry set (1737–1745),” The Second Year Research Student Symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, May
2022 “Observation and Experimentation in Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin’s Recueil de plantes copiées d”après nature (1736–1785),” Carnets de notes, carnets de références, musées de papier, Université de Strasbourg, March
2026 “Mineral Marvels: Buffon’s Rocaille Grotto and Porcelain Cabinet,” The French Porcelain Society, Living Room Lecture Series, March 22
2025 “Les services aux oiseaux Buffon (1779–1794): les décors ornithologiques de Sèvres,” Société des amis du musée national de céramique, October 8
2023 “Tasteful Science in the Jardin du Roi: Madeleine Françoise Basseporte’s Shell Paintings on Vellum (1747–1768),” Women in Art and Science in the Early Modern World, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, USC, November 10–11