Aude Semat is Associate Curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she oversees the Second Intermediate Period and early New Kingdom galleries.

Aude studied art history and Egyptology at the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne, where she received her PhD in Egyptology in 2017. She has taken part in exhibitions and cataloguing projects in museums in France and the U.S., and taught at the École du Louvre until 2018. Her research focuses on tomb architecture, painting, and landscape in ancient Egypt, as well as the history of collecting and museums in the 19th century.

While at the American Academy, Aude will be working on the manuscript of her book on architectural painting and landscape in ancient Egyptian art, tentatively entitled Représenter la tombe en Égypte ancienne. Architecture figurée et paysage dans l’image égyptienne (XVIIIe-XXIIe dynasties), to be published in the series Aegyptiaca Leodiensa. She will also visit museums and archives to complete her research on Francesco de Castiglione, a Milanese collector and dealer active during the 1820s and early 1830s, who is connected to several Egyptian collections in Italy, Russia, and the Netherlands.