Charlotte Maury was trained in art history at the Ecole du Louvre and Paris IV–Sorbonne, and studied Persian and Turkish at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. Since 2007 she has been in charge of the collections of Turkish and Ottoman art, and of the arts of the book from Iran and India, in the department of Islamic art at the Louvre Museum. She has collaborated on several exhibitions organized by the department. She is currently conducting research on albums and manuscript pages in the Louvre collection in collaboration with the C2RMF laboratory.