Gregory Curtis (30 page)

42.
arrival, Voutier quote, other French ships: Alaux, 28.

43.
Oconomos raising price: Ravaisson 1892.

44.
Russian ship: It is variously reported as Albanian, Russian, Greek, and Austrian. Ravaisson says it was Russian. Discussion of different nationalities in Michon 1900, 313, fn. 1.

45.
contrary wind: Marcellus 1840, 192.

46.
account of negotiations: All from Marcellus 1840, except the reference to a threat of force, which is in Michon 1900, 317.

47.
friendship of Marcellus and dragoman: Marcellus, 1840, 201.

48.
750 francs: Per Marcellus 1840. Several different prices have been quoted. Account of different prices in Michon 1900, 312, fn. 3.

49.
account of loading the statue: Alaux, 49. For the date as May 24, Alaux cites Robert’s log. Marcellus says it was the 23rd, but he must be mistaken.

50.
Marcellus quote: Marcellus 1840, 198.

51.
Marcellus tells this story himself in
Souvenirs
(1840).

52.
prostitution on Melos: Stanford and Finopoulos.

53.
anecdote about pilot and Maritza: Marcellus 1851.

54.
voyage after purchase: Alaux (Voutier singing, 67, 179).

55.
showing Fauvel: ibid., 76.

56.
arrival in Smyrna: ibid., 80.

57.
Brest in Smyrna, outrage of dragoman, and Morousi’s death: Marcellus 1840, 200.

58.
“In Smyrna I left”: Alaux, 81.

59.
biography of Rivière: Hoeffer, Michon 1906. The letter quoted is in Michon 1906, 7.

  
1.
“Good taste,”: Wohlleben, 172.

  
2.
fifty copies: Winckelmann 1987, xv.

  
3.
“Summoned a submerged continent”: Butler, 11.

  
4.
Winckelmann in Enlightenment France: Pommier, 10.

  
5.
superficial descriptions: Winckelmann 1987, xiv.

  
6.
“One learns nothing”: Honour 1987, 58.

  
7.
antiquity all of a piece: Honour 1987, 59.

  
8.
Winckelmann’s biography: Butler, 10, 14ff.

  
9.
“I shall bury myself”: ibid., 13.

10.
“mangy-headed little boys”: ibid., 14.

11.
“The only way”: Winckelmann 1987, 5.

12.
“imitation of the Greeks”: ibid., 19.

13.
Winckelmann on Bernini: ibid., 21.

14.
“noble simplicity and quiet grandeur”: ibid., 33.

15.
September 1755: Butler, 18.

16.
Catholic court: ibid., 16.

17.
Vernon Lee: quoted in Butler, 18.

18.
Casanova: quoted in Potts 1994, 212.

19.
“The independence of Greece”: Winckelmann 1968, 289.

20.
“One can distinguish”: Wohlleben, 174.

21.
Winckelmann on the Apollo Belvedere: quoted in Honour 1987, 60.

22.
“the only precedent”: ibid., 60.

23.
murder story: Butler, 40ff; Leppmann, 6.

24.
Pasolini: Potts 1994, 17.

25.
art academies, economic growth: Pevsner, 151, 152.

26.
Pompeii: Constantine, 111.

27.
insects: Bracken, 87.

28.
guards’ extortion: Eisner, 75.

29.
Antiquities of Athens:
Bracken, 10.

30.
Barthélemy: Augustinos, 137ff.

31.
Flaxman prints: Honour 1987, 88.

  
1.
shops, restaurants, etc.: Mansel 2001, 42–3.

  
2.
“No other capital”: Willms, 183.

  
3.
boulevards: Mansel 2001, 50; Willms, 164.

  
4.
English guidebook: quoted in Mansel 2001, 47.

  
5.
toast: ibid., 43.

  
6.
descriptions of Paris: Much of this is from Barzun, 519.

  
7.
population 800,000: Willms, 158.

  
8.
sludge in streets: ibid., 179.

  
9.
diseases: Barzun, 536.

10.
family economy: Willms, 162.

11.
Louis XVIII: Mansel 2001, 191.

12.
“These houses … lie wrapped”: Balzac, 60–61.

13.
on the Louvre: Gould, 3ff.

14.
official looting of art, books, plants: ibid., 32.

15.
“to send secretly after the armies”: Chatelain, 163.

16.
“These immortal works”: ibid.

17.
“There is only we”: Pommier, 14.

18.
new edition of Winckelmann: ibid., 15.

19.
Greek influence on revolutionary society: Badolle, 385ff.

20.
song lyric: ibid., 386.

21.
Napoleon assumes command in Italy: Gould, 44.

22.
Convoy of arts from Italy: Chatelain, 165–6.

23.
Denon rushing into battles: ibid., 172.

24.
De Non: ibid., 21.

25.
debauches in remote châteaux: Chatelain, 76.

26.
people Denon knew: ibid., 12.

27.
Denon-Napoleon meeting: ibid., 78.

28.
Denon taking the best: ibid., 168.

29.
Musée Napoléon visitor quotes: ibid., 214.

30.
soldiers and workers: ibid., 211.

31.
Napoleon and art and motivations: Gould, 42–3.

32.
“removal of the Apollo”: Gould, 41.

33.
“this celestial mixture”: Haskell and Penny, 148.

34.
“Can one find anywhere”: ibid., 91.

35.
Napoleon and plaque: ibid., 112.

36.
quote on plaque: Chatelain, 210–11.

37.
Van Dyck, Rembrandt …: Chatelain, 302.

38.
Respect for museum: Chatelain, 218.

39.
numbers of works reclaimed: Chaudonneret, 12; Chatelain, 250.

40.
woodcut: reproduced in Chatelain, third group of pictures.

Unless otherwise noted, the details of Forbin’s personal life are from his letters published in Neto 1995.

41.
Louis XVIII quote: Chatelain, 223.

42.
description of Forbin: from Ingres portrait and various memoirs.

43.
Forbin’s birth and family: in Hoeffer.

44.
Granet meeting: in Hoeffer; Granet’s memoirs, 5.

45.
“I am a little surprised”: Neto 1995, 60.

46.
“cemented the affection”: Marcellus 1843.

47.
David’s school and his quote: Delecluze 1883.

48.
“Forbin carried”: Neto 1995, 301.

49.
slave market: Carre, 195.

50.
Casts of Elgin marble, etc.: casts Angrand, 62; Moses, 63, (Ingres and chapel) 76, (Forbin quote) 63.

51.
“It is unfortunate”: Neto 1995, 300.

52.
“like a rabid dog”: Neto 1995, 65.

53.
“I believe”: Neto 1995, 70.

54.
Rumors that Forbin’s painting was really by Granet: Neto 1995, 72.

The politics inside the Louvre and the letters it produced are from Michon 1900 and 1902 unless otherwise indicated.

55.
d’Urville arrives in October: Besnier, 222.

56.
d’Urville reads paper: ibid., also 223, (paper he read) 231.

57.
“Thus the obscure ensign”: ibid., 218.

58.
“I owe to a lucky happenstance”: ibid., 206.

59.
“Experts are busy”: Michon 1900, 307.

60.
reasoning of scholars about the slab’s inauthenticity: extrapolated from Quatremère de Quincy’s footnote in his “Dissertation” and from later rationales as in Michon 1900.

61.
Emeric-David and Winckelmann: Potts 1978, 203.

62.
Emeric’s opinion on the statue: Emeric-David, 234.

63.
Quatremère on women: Quatremère 1980, xxxvi.

64.
Quatremère dispute with Forbin: Angrand, 199.

65.
Forbin knew what was in the paper: Neto, 65.

66.
Quotes from “Dissertation”: ibid., 240.

67.
“There are antiquaries”: Maury, 756.

68.
“I don’t really see why you address yourself”: Ravaisson 1871b.

69.
“pure forgetfulness”: Michon 1900, 351.

70.
“represent an epoch” and further quotes: Clarac 1821.

71.
“I find your ideas”: Michon 1900, 353.

72.
Fontaine’s buildings: Fontaine, liv.

73.
Fontaine’s personal life: Fouche, 72.

74.
anecdote about Fontaine and money: Hoeffer, 323.

75.
“The continual buzzing”: Fontaine, 537.

76.
museum as place of instruction, “a place consecrated”: Chaudonneret, 41.

77.
“uselessness” and “fantasies”: Fontaine, 617.

78.
coming to blows: ibid., 617.

79.
plaster cast: ibid., 618.

80.
jury to decide: ibid., 617–18.

81.
“I have the honor”: Michon 1900, 358.

82.
“I am truly displeased”: ibid., 358.

83.
“It was only the personal interest”: Fontaine, 627.

84.
corset and Spanish fly: Neto 1995, 303.

85.
Forbin carried into Récamier salon: Goncourt and Goncourt, 65.

  
1.
opening anecdote: Delacroix’s
Journals
.

  
2.
details of Ravaisson’s life: Dulière, Borgson.

  
3.
hiding the statue during the Franco-Prussian War: Gautier.

  
4.
problems exposed by missing sides: Ravaisson 1871b.

  
5.
“Venus appears”: Gautier, 357.

  
6.
“Never did a man”: Bergson, 278.

  
7.
biographical details about Aicard: Guirand, Burnett. Rest of situation: Aicard.

  
8.
“I would have”: Aicard, 43.

  
9.
Brest’s letter: Runciok 1930, 255.

10.
d’Urville’s paper: ibid., 253.

11.
Marcellus, Voutier, and the drawings: Aicard, de Lorris.

12.
“a scuffle”: Beard, 120.

13.
“Years later, Marcellus’s account”: Augustinos, 233.

14.
“Though Marcellus never admits”: Arscott and Scott, 3.

15.
“image expressing divine grace”: Ravaisson 1985, 84.

16.
Reinach’s review of Ravaisson’s paper: Reinach 1893.

17.
Furtwängler’s review: Furtwängler 1893.

  
1.
Prince Ludwig: Haskell 1981, 116.

  
2.
Heine crying: Galard, 106. He also thought she looked at him with pity as if she wanted to say, “Can’t you see I don’t have arms and am not able to help you?”

  
3.
Furtwängler’s life before work in Athens: Briggs and Calder, 84ff.

  
4.
“all fire”: Briggs and Calder, 85.

  
5.
Furtwängler and pottery from Mycenae: Marchand 2000a.

  
6.
Curtius at Olympia: Briggs and Calder.

  
7.
philology and the desirability of finds: Marchand 2000b, 196.

  
8.
Hermes copy: Michaelis, 131.

  
9.
Furtwängler at Olympia, “rubbish of ancient times”: Briggs and Calder, Marchand 2000a.

10.
“I feel quite satisfied”: Marchand, 2000a.

11.
Furtwängler after Olympia: Briggs and Calder, Bazant.

12.
“I am already”: Bazant, 91.

13.
“One of my fundamental failings”: Briggs and Calder, 88.

14.
Furtwängler marriage and family life: Schonzeler, Schuchhardt.

15.
appearance and lecturing style: Church.

16.
Wilhelm Furtwängler: Schonzeler.

Unless otherwise noted, Reinach’s life, bibliography, marriage, beliefs are from introduction to Reinach 1996 or Pottier.

17.
Reinach: The final
ch
is hard and is pronounced like
k
.

18.
back of a woman’s neck: Samuels, 123.

19.
Liane de Pougy anecdote and quote: Pougy, 142.

20.
“Tell me then”: Morra, 269.

21.
“Much more romance”: Wickes, 158.

22.
“She reads nothing”: ibid., 8.

23.
“Surely the wild girl”: Samuels, 207.

24.
“physical radiance”: ibid.

25.
“I was madly in love”: Biocca, 150.

26.
Liane de Pougy biography: Chalon.

27.
“We were passionate”: Pougy, 253.

28.
Pougy’s quotes about Reinach: Pougy, 107, 135, 125, 117, 51.

29.
“I blame myself”: Reinach, 181.

30.
Reinach’s letters to Pougy: ibid., 169, 190.