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death of,
184

Healy’s portrait of,
143–44
,
145

Tom Thumb’s audience with,
162–63

unpopularity of,
119
,
120–21
,
179

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

Grande Galerie of,
41
,
66
,
91
,
95
,
216
,
261

Healy’s visits to,
140–41
,
145

history of,
41

Holmes’s farewell visit to,
424

Morse at work in,
89–91

Morse’s painting of,
see Gallery of the Louvre

Paris Commune and,
316
,
321
,
323
,
326–27

Salle des Sept-Cheminées of,
261

Salon Carré of,
64–65
,
66
,
96–97
,
216
,
261

and siege of Paris,
287

Stowe’s visits to,
215–17

Sumner’s first visits to,
42
,
47

Venus de Milo of,
326–27

Willard’s visit to,
42–43
,
58

Low, Will,
335
,
343–44
,
348–50
,
365
,
372
,
415
,
438
,
442

“Lutèce,” in Paris origins,
25

Luxembourg Gardens,
89
,
121
,
235
,
296
,
298
,
323
,
365
,
367
,
373
,
389
,
412
,
435
,
452

Luxembourg Museum,
412
,
449

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

McKean, James,
309
,
313–14
,
315

McKim, Charles,
366–67
,
368
,
369
,
431
,
443
,
454

McLean Hospital,
105

MacMahon, Patrice de,
309
,
320–21
,
324
,
356

MacMonnies, Frederick,
426
,
434

Madame Cortier
(Cassatt),
341

Madame X
(Sargent),
399–404
,
419–20

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

Madison Square Park,
378
,
383

Mandolin Player, A
(Cassatt),
337

Manet, Édouard,
245
,
342
,
389
,
399
,
419

Maria Stuarda
(Donizetti),
229

Marie-Amélie, Queen of France,
43
,
170
,
183
,
260

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,
41

Marriage at Cana, The
(Veronese),
91
,
95

Mars, Mademoiselle (Anne Françoise Boutet),
51–52

“Marseillaise,”
11
,
181
,
245
,
254
,
257
,
258

Marx, Karl,
187

Mason, John Y.,
232

Massachusetts General Hospital,
6
,
105
,
128
,
133
,
451

Massachusetts Medical Society,
136

Maternité, La,
192–94

Maupassant, Guy de,
407

Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico,
244
,
251

May, Charles,
270
,
281–82

Mazas Prison,
314
,
318
,
320–21

Medici, Catherine de,
41
,
43

Medusa
,
216

Meissonier, Ernest,
342
,
343
,
407

Melbourne, Lord,
183

Melville, Herman,
218

Memorial
(Irving),
199

Mendelssohn, Felix,
164

Meninas, Las
(Velázquez),
389
,
396

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

Michelangelo,
373
,
445

Middle Ages,
444–45

Millet, Jean-François,
191

Minneapolis Tribune
,
275

Mobile Bay, Battle of,
360

Mobile Guard,
300

Molière,
10
,
51
,
52
,
135

Mona Lisa
(Leonardo),
63
,
90–91

Monet, Claude,
342
,
389
,
410
,
419

Monroe, James,
7
,
81

Monroe Doctrine,
244

Monticello,
44

Montmartre,
281
,
305
,
306–7
,
320

view of Paris from,
38–39

Mont Saint-Michel,
445

Moore, Frank,
271
,
328

Moore, Thomas,
245

Morisot, Berthe,
352
,
355
,
419

Morocco,
173
,
389

Morse, Elizabeth,
77

Morse, Finley,
82

Morse, Jedidiah,
75–77
,
81–82
,
84
,
96

Morse, Lucretia Pickering,
8
,
81–82
,
149

death of,
83

Morse, Richard,
77
,
84

Morse, Samuel F. B.,
4
,
139
,
166
,
197
,
248
,
406

ambition of,
80

anti-Catholicism of,
97–98
,
149–50

art background of,
7–9

art career of,
80–84

art education of,
62
,
77–79

as art professor,
149–50

banquet in honor of,
231–33

“Brutus” as pen name of,
150

cholera epidemic and,
88
,
90

Cooper contrasted with,
75–76
,
78

on Cooper’s Americanism,
92–93

Cooper’s friendship with,
61–62
,
63
,
74–75
,
82
,
91

family background of,
75–78

first major commission of,
81

inventions as financial object of,
81

in Italy trip,
62
,
64

in July 4, 1832, celebration,
94–95

Lafayette’s portrait by,
82–83

Lafayette toasted by,
94–95

London sojourn of,
78–80

Louvre visits of,
58
,
61

marriages of,
81
,
232

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

Sue Cooper and,
74
,
97

telegraph of,
see
telegraph West’s praise of,
79

Willis’s observation of,
84–85

at Yale,
76–77
,
80

see also Gallery of the Louvre

Morse, Sarah Griswold,
232

Morse, Sidney,
77
,
149
,
155

Morse, Susan,
148–50
,
153

Morton, W. T. G.,
133

Moulton, Charles,
253
,
304
,
307
,
315–16

Moulton, Lillie Greenough,
252–53
,
304
,
307
,
315–16
,
327

Rigault’s interview with,
310–11

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
49
,
229
,
256

Muette de Portici, La
(Auber),
257

Murger, Henri,
221

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