Marcelle Baud

[2] In 1920, Benedite found her a place at the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO), where she was the first woman to be an attaché.

[3] In 1926–1927, she was asked by Capart, then curator in Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, to reproduce paintings from the Tomb of Nakht in the style of Robert Hays.

[3][5] Her book, Les dessins ébauches de la necropole thebaine, which was published in 1935, remains a key volume studying the techniques of drawing in ancient Egypt.

[2] Just prior to the Second World War starting she was invited to rewrite Hachette's Guide Bleu Egypte and completely rewrote it by 1956.

[2] During the 1930s, she became a founding member of the club for Soroptimists in Paris, and she encouraged Werbrouck to set up the branch in Brussels.

Baud, Suzanne Berger and Werbrouck's signatures in the Nahman Visitor Guestbook.
Marcelle Baud in Egypt from the exhibition, Traits d'Egypte: Marcelle Baud (1890-1987), Musée Bargoin