Pierre Wat is a professor of art history at the University of Paris-I. A specialist in Romanticism, author of monographs devoted to Pierre Buraglio, and Claude Viallat, Pierre Wat has also published numerous texts on contemporary painting, including a noted essay, Turner, menteur magnifique (Hazan,2010), as well as Pérégrination, paysages entre nature et histoire (Hazan, 2017), which received the Pierre Daix prize in 2018.