Professor of Art History at Seton Hall University (USA), Petra ten-Doesschate Chu is a specialist in Nineteenth-century art history. She published the letters of
Courbet (
Correspondance de Courbet, Flammarion 1996), as well as a publication on the French painter (
The Most Arrogant Man in France, Princeton University Press, 2007), source documents (
Courbet in perspective, Prentice Hall, 1977), an exhibition catalogue (
Gustave Courbet, artiste et promoteur de son œuvre, avec Jörg Zütter, Skira, 1999), essays and articles.
