Discussion between Estelle Zhong Mengual, art historian, and Anne de Malleray, editor of Billebaude magazine.

How might painting and natural history, as arts of seeing the living world, orient us in the crisis of sensitivity to the living that we are going through? By rediscovering the practices and views of nineteenth-century women naturalists, such as Arabella Buckley or Frances Theodora Parsons; and by reinterpreting, in the light of natural science knowledge, paintings by nineteenth-century painters such as Frederic Church or Albert Bierstadt, Estelle Zhong Mengual makes them guides to learning to see the living around us as so many embodied points of view on the world.