Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu is a leading authority on nineteenth century art. She is a professor at Seton Hall University and the author of numerous articles and essays, as well as several books, including "French Realism and the Dutch Masters, Courbet in Perspective, The Letters of Gustave Courbet, The Popularization of Images "(with Gabriel P. Weisberg), "The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture," and "Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on...See more

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu is a leading authority on nineteenth century art. She is a professor at Seton Hall University and the author of numerous articles and essays, as well as several books, including "French Realism and the Dutch Masters, Courbet in Perspective, The Letters of Gustave Courbet, The Popularization of Images "(with Gabriel P. Weisberg), "The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture," and "Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art "(with Laurinda S. Dixon). The recipient of several awards, such as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, two National Endowment of the Humanities grants, and a Jane and Morgan Whitney Art History Fellowship, Chu is the past president of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of "Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide." See less