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Authors: David Mccullough
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (119 page)
death of,
184
Tom Thumb’s audience with,
162–63
Louvre,
27
,
29
,
37
,
80
,
148
,
155
,
168
,
208
,
219
,
222
,
226
,
306
,
332
,
412
,
415
,
450
annual Salon at,
65
Catlin’s exhibit in,
176
Empress Eugénie’s escape through,
260–61
history of,
41
Holmes’s farewell visit to,
424
Morse at work in,
89–91
Morse’s painting of,
see Gallery of the Louvre
Salle des Sept-Cheminées of,
261
and siege of Paris,
287
Stowe’s visits to,
215–17
Venus de Milo of,
326–27
“Lutèce,” in Paris origins,
25
Luxembourg Gardens,
89
,
121
,
235
,
296
,
298
,
323
,
365
,
367
,
373
,
389
,
412
,
435
,
452
Luxembourg Palace,
45
Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
(Cassatt),
393
Lydia Seated in the Garden with a Dog in Her Lap
(Cassatt),
393
Lynch, William,
229
Lyons, Richard B. P.,
269
Lytton, Lord,
416
Macbeth
(Shakespeare),
420
McLean Hospital,
105
Madame Cortier
(Cassatt),
341
controversial reactions to,
402–4
painting of,
400–401
in Paris Salon of 1884,
401–2
preliminary studies for,
400
reviews of,
403–4
sale of,
404
Sargent’s supposed obsession with subject of,
399–400
stagy pose of,
400–401
Madison, James,
444
Mandolin Player, A
(Cassatt),
337
Maria Stuarda
(Donizetti),
229
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,
41
Mars, Mademoiselle (Anne Françoise Boutet),
51–52
Marx, Karl,
187
Mason, John Y.,
232
Massachusetts Medical Society,
136
Maternité, La,
192–94
Maupassant, Guy de,
407
Medusa
,
216
Melbourne, Lord,
183
Melville, Herman,
218
Memorial
(Irving),
199
Mendelssohn, Felix,
164
Messenger
,
28
Metcalf, Willard,
411–12
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York),
404
metro system,
446
Mexican War,
223
Mexico,
244
Michel, Émile,
381–82
Middle Ages,
444–45
Millet, Jean-François,
191
Minneapolis Tribune
,
275
Mobile Bay, Battle of,
360
Mobile Guard,
300
Monroe Doctrine,
244
Monticello,
44
view of Paris from,
38–39
Mont Saint-Michel,
445
Moore, Thomas,
245
Morse, Elizabeth,
77
Morse, Finley,
82
death of,
83
ambition of,
80
art background of,
7–9
art career of,
80–84
as art professor,
149–50
banquet in honor of,
231–33
“Brutus” as pen name of,
150
on Cooper’s Americanism,
92–93
family background of,
75–78
first major commission of,
81
inventions as financial object of,
81
in July 4, 1832, celebration,
94–95
Lafayette’s portrait by,
82–83
Lafayette toasted by,
94–95
London sojourn of,
78–80
as mayoral candidate,
150
National Academy of Art founded by,
84
Nativist movement and,
149–50
painting abandoned by,
151
Paris residence of,
74–75
photographic interest of,
157–59
as portraitist,
80–84
as portrait photographer,
159
religion and,
76–77
self-portraits of,
68
success and recognition of,
231–32
telegraph of,
see
telegraph West’s praise of,
79
Willis’s observation of,
84–85
see also Gallery of the Louvre
Morse, Sarah Griswold,
232
Morton, W. T. G.,
133
Rigault’s interview with,
310–11
Muette de Portici, La
(Auber),
257
Murger, Henri,
221