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in tour of southern France,
367–68

White Cloud,
168
,
171

White Girl
(Whistler),
249

Whittlesey, Elmira,
263

Wilde, Oscar,
10
,
423

Willard, Emma Hart,
4
,
59
,
206
,
215

background of,
4–5

Cooper admired by,
74

first Paris impression of,
26
,
28–29

on Italian Opera and “genteel society,”
48–49

Lafayette and,
29
,
58

Louvre visited by,
42–43
,
58

mail service deplored by,
55–56

Paris described by,
40–41

on Roman Catholicism,
23

in trans-Atlantic voyage,
18–19

Willard, John,
5

Williams, Henry,
133

Willis, Nathaniel Parker,
9–10
,
20
,
34
,
36
,
37
,
44
,
47
,
49
,
50
,
55
,
58
,
62
,
67
,
68
,
74
,
92
,
129
,
151

cholera epidemic and,
85–86
,
88

Cooper observed by,
84–85

in journey to Paris,
22
,
24
,
26–27

Morse and Cooper observed by,
84–85

in trans-Atlantic voyage,
14–16

Wissembourg, Battle of,
259

Woman Reading
(Cassatt),
387

Woman with the Glove, The
(Carolus-Duran),
343

Woolsey, Melancthon T.,
37–38
,
70

Worth, Charles Frederick,
252

Wörth, Battle of,
259

Yale University,
70
,
75

Morse at,
76–77
,
80

Yardley, Olivia,
see
Bowditch, Olivia Yardley

Young Stethoscopist, The
(Bowditch),
133

Zarafa (giraffe),
45

Zola, Émile,
332

This and the following page constitute an extension of the copyright page.

Illustration Credits.
The illustrations appear courtesy of the following sources: akg-images / The Image Works, Woodstock, NY:
22
• Alinari Archives / The Image Works, Woodstock, NY:
2
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: 63 (R.L. Ormond material), 77 (Artists in their Paris studios collection), 82 (Everett Shinn collection) • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Friends of American Art Collection, No. 1924.37:
83
• Author’s Collection: front and back endpapers,
1
,
5
,
28
,
29
,
48
,
137
• Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Paris, France / Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library International:
24
• Boston Art Commission, Boston, MA:
34
• Bowditch, Vincent
. Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch,
Vol. I. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902:
17
• The Bridgeman Art Library International: iv • Bridgeman-Giraudon /Art Resource, New York, NY:
78
• The British Library / HIP / The Image Works, Woodstock, NY:
7
• Charles Sumner Papers, bMS AM 1.60 (6), Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA:
26
• Château de Versailles, France / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library International:
58
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, George Peter Alexander Healy,
Self-Portrait,
1852. Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, No. 1915.601.:
12
• Collection of the City of New York. Photograph by Glenn Castellano. Courtesy of the Design Commission of New York, NY:
8
•Erich Lessing / Art Resource, New York, NY:
56
,
60
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,
Bouguereau’s Atelier at the Académie Julian, Paris
(detail), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, No. 1979.7.26:
81
• Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, Gift of the Whiting Foundation, No. 1967.32:
69
• Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY,
James F. Cooper, 1822
by John Wesley Jarvis, N0146.1977. Photograph by Richard Walker:
10

Galignani’s New Paris Guide, 1830.
Published by A. and W. Galignani, Paris, France:
3
• Collecíon Gasca / Iberfoto / The Image Works, Woodstock, NY:
30
• George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY: 32 (detail) • Getty Images, Chicago, IL: 6 (Kean Collection); 16 (Rischgitz); 31, 51 (Apic); 35, 44 (Hulton Archives); 36 (Museum of the City of New York); 45 (Popperfoto) • Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Gernsheim Collection,
Insurgés non réclame:
57

Harper’s Weekly,
January 11, 1868:
15
• Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA:
19
,
20
,
21
• Robert Henri Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.:
84
• The Hermitage: Home of President Andrew Jackson, Nashville, TN:
33

Illustrated London News,
August 22, 1857:
47
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA:
74
• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: xii-xiii, xiv-xv,
37
,
43
,
54
,
55
,
61
,
79
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA:
18
,
86
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY / Art Resource, New York, NY:
64
,
70
,
76
• Musée de la Ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France: The Bridgeman Art Library, New York, NY:
52
,
53
• Musée Carnavalet / Roger-Violett / The Image Works, Woodstock, NY:
4
,
85
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Florence D. Boit in memory of their father, Edward Darley Boit, No. 19.124:
75
• National Park Service, Longfellow House-Washington Headquarters National Historic Site Archives, Cambridge, MA:
25
,
27
• National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. / Art Resource, New York, NY:
62
,
80
• ND / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works, Woodstock, NY:
88
• Collection of the NewYork Historical Society, New York, NY,
The Reading Club:
Portrait of John Singer Sargent seated with another man reading Shakespeare, ca. 1875; Accession # 1935.85.2.151 and
In the Atelier of Carolus-Duran:
John Singer Sargent Painting in the Company of Frank Fowler and unidentified artist; Accession # 1935.85.2.245; by James Carroll Beckwith:
73
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Music Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation, New York, NY:
38
• Private Collection, Peter Newark American Pictures / The Bridgeman Art Library, New York, NY:
40
• Private Collection, Christie’s Images / The Bridgeman Art Library International, New York, NY:
68
• Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, France / Art Resource, New York, NY:
14
,
39
• Roger-Viollet / The Image Works, Woodstock, NY:
87
,
265
• Ruthmere, Elkhart, IN:
9
• Saint-Gaudens Papers, Dartmouth College, Rauner Library, Hanover, NH:
66
,
90
• Scala / Art Resource, New York, NY:
42
,
46
• Scala / White Images / Art Resource, New York, NY:
1
• Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA:
50
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. / Art Resource, New York, NY:
41
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
MA / The Bridgeman Art Library, New York, NY:
71
• Tate Gallery, London / Art Resource, New York, NY:
72
• Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL / Art Resource, New York, NY, Samuel F. B. Morse,
Gallery of the Louvre,
Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.51:
11
• U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish NH: 49, 65, 67 (photograph by Dewitt Clinton Ward), 89, 91 (photograph by Kevin Daley) • Wellcome Library, London:
23
• Emma Willard School Archives, Troy, NY: 13.

Text Permissions.
The author gratefully acknowledges permision from the following sources to use material in their control: Moore College of Art and Design Archives, Philadelphia, PA, for excerpts from the letters of Emily Sartain • National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY, for excerpts from the Papers of James Carroll Beckwith • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Carl Zigrosser Collection, Philadelphia, PA, for excerpts from the Family Letters of Mary Cassatt • Harvard Medical School Library, Countway Building, Boston, MA, for excerpts from the Papers of James Jackson Sr. and Jr. (H MS c8.1 folders 1–9 and H MS c8.2 folders 1016).

 

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