JoLynn Edwards is a Professor of Art History & Comparative Arts at UW Bothell. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History and a B.A. in General and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Washington.
Edwards research interests encompass the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly French painting and drawing, Baroque dance and ballet d'action, and the rise of the art market and the commodification of culture before the French Revolution. Edwards' work has focused on the Parisian art market, culminating with her book, Alexandre-Joseph Paillet: expert et marchand de tableaux a la fin du XVIIIe siecle (1996), Edwards recently expanded her interests in the 18th century and has published an article on Louis-Francois de Bourbon, prince de Conti, an important collector of paintings and other luxury products. After his death in the 1770s, sales of these paintings flooded and destabilized the Parisian art market. Edwards is currently working on an article on the correspondence between Conti's mistress, Marie-Charlotte-Hippolyte de Campet de Saujon, comtesse de Boufflers-Rouverel, and the philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume.
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