Stéphane Guégan is an art historian, art critic, and head of the cultural department at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. His many published works include books on Gaugin, Delacroix, and Chassériau. He was curator of the exhibitions Chassériau: The Unknown Romantic at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Grand Palais in Paris, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg and Ingres (1780-1867) at the Louvre in Paris (2006).