She defended her thesis Le dessin espagnol au XVIIème siècle : École de Madrid in 1947.
[2] She co-authored Histoire de la peinture espagnole : Du XIIᵉ au XIXᵉ siècle with Paul Guinard in 1950, then she organized several exhibitions both in France and abroad.
In 1970, she curated the exhibition Goya at the art museum Mauritshuis in The Hague, and then at Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
[2] She also curated in 1987 and in January 1988, the important retrospective exhibitions of Zurbarán at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Grand Palais in Paris, respectively.
[3] Over the years Baticle has acquired a deep knowledge of Spain, about its history and customs, which allowed her to situate the works of painters in their social and political context.