La Maison Langweil and Women’s Exchange of Asian Art in Fin-de-siècle Paris

Women such as Florine Ebstein Langweil and Clémence d’Ennery were largely excluded from the networks of professional activities that came to distinguish “collectors” of Asian art in late nineteenth-century France, yet their acquisitions and exchange of information profoundly influenced contemporary engagement with the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea.