Stéphanie Deschamps-Tan is a graduate of the École du Louvre, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, and the Institut national du Patrimoine. Deschamps-Tan is a curator at the Louvre Museum's Sculpture Department, where she is responsible for the sculpture collections from the first half of the 19th century. She is currently preparing the publication of the catalog for this period. Her present research focuses on French Neoclassicism, particularly Joseph Chinard and François-Joseph Bosio, and the influence of Antonio Canova in France. Formerly director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Arras and head of the sculpture section in the restoration department at the C2RMF, she also teaches at the École du Louvre and has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently on Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans (Montauban, 2021) and on the representation of childhood (Le Mans, Bordeaux, 2025).