The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (100 page)

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Although estimates of the total carnage:
Horne,
The Fall of Paris
, 418.

325
Olin Warner, like Washburne:
“Olin Levi Warner Defense of the Paris Commune,” Archives of American Art.

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“I hope it will never be my lot”:
Olin Warner to his parents, June 6, 1871, Archives of American Art.

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The body of the archbishop: Galignani’s Messenger
, June 9, 1871.

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one of “the most emotional and imposing” services:
Washburne,
Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869–1877
, Vol. II, 185–86.

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“Paris, the Paris of civilization”: Galignani’s Messenger
, June 3, 1871.

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Cook’s Tours of London:
Horne,
The Fall of Paris
, 421.

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By July the Tuileries Garden: Galignani’s Messenger
, July 1, 1871.

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The Venus de Milo:
Ibid., June 30, August 27, 1871.

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Everyone leaned forward:
Ibid., August 27, 1871.

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Lillie Moulton ordered several fine dresses:
De Hegermann-Lindencrone,
In the Courts of Memory, 1858–1875
, 246.

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Her engagement, too:
Jacobi,
Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobi
, 281.

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“I have passed my last examination”:
Ibid., 286.

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That a woman had acquired the legal right:
Ibid., 290.

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Tributes were to be published:
See various newspaper articles, editorials, and tributes in the Washburne Family Scrapbooks, Library of Congress.

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“Speaking of diplomacy”:
Diary entry of Frank Moore, Paris, September 30, 1871, Frank Moore Papers, NewYork Historical Society.

The wealth of Cassatt and Sargent family correspondence, in two collections at the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, adds enormously to an understanding of the formative years in the lives of both Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent. Dr. FitzWilliam Sargent’s letters are particularly important, given that his son John wrote so little about himself.

The best books about Mary Cassatt are those by Nancy Mowll Mathews:
Cassatt and Her Circle; Selected Letters
(1984);
Mary Cassatt
(1987);
Mary Cassatt: A Life
(1994); and
Cassatt: A Retrospective
(1996).

For Sargent, the two essential biographies are
John Sargent
by Evan Charteris, published in 1927, two years after Sargent’s death, and the engagingly written
John Singer Sargent: His Portrait
by Stanley Olson (1986). Of particular appeal, too, are the Sargent vignettes in the letters and reminiscences of his friends Will Low and James Carroll Beckwith (as cited below).

Sargent’s early work is magnificently reproduced and documented in two monumental books by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray,
John Sargent: The Early Portraits
(1998), and
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874–1882.

For a comprehensive study of American students and their atelier masters, nothing equals H. Barbara Weinberg’s
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
(1991).

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I began to live: Mathews, ed.,
Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters
, 132.

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“I have never seen”:
James,
Parisian Sketches: Letters to the New York Tribune
,
1875–1876
, 39.

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To help meet expenses:
Ibid., xiii.

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“sense of Parisian things”:
Ibid., 3.

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“decidedly the most”:
Ibid., 21.

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“looked and looked again”:
Lewis,
The Jameses: A Family Narrative
, 86.

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Called
The American: James,
The American
, 33.

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The street was relatively quiet:
Rue de Luxembourg is now rue Cambon. Author’s visit to the street and location of James’s apartment. See also James,
Henry James Letters
, Vol. II, 3.

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“If you were to see me”:
Ibid., 6.

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“Considering how nice”:
Ibid.

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“taken a desperate plunge”:
Ibid., 20.

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“I am waiting anxiously”:
Ibid., 17.

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“Love to all in superabundance”:
James,
Henry James Letters
, Vol. II, ed. Edel, 47.

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He was in Paris to work:
Ibid., 23.

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“I want the biggest kind of entertainment”:
James,
The American
, 58.

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“What shall I tell you?”:
James,
Henry James Letters
, Vol. II, ed. Edel, 35.

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“The spring is now quite settled”:
Ibid., 41.

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Since the brutal catastrophes: Galignani’s Messenger
, October 5, 1872.

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In a single week:
Ibid., September 21, 1872.

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“the recipient of much attention”:
Ibid., October 21, 1872.

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It is generally acknowledged: Galignani’s Messenger
, January 6, 1872.

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Will Low, an art student:
Low,
A Painter’s Progress: Six Discourses Forming the Fifth Annual Series of the Scammon Lectures, Delivered Before the Art Institute of Chicago, April, 1910
,146.

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George Healy, with his wife:
See George P. A. Healy to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, November 11, 1874, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to George P. A. Healy, October 19, 1874, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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“We can give garden parties”:
De Mare,
G. P. A. Healy, American Artist
, 270.

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The Healys had been among:
George P. A. Healy to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, November 5, 1872, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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“Healy is strong in portraits”:
Thomas Gold Appleton to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, June 3, 1875, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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“This will be an historical picture”: “Souvenir of the Exhibition Entitled Healy’s Sitters or a Portrait Panorama of the Victorian Age,”
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1950, 54.

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“I go every morning”:
Excerpt from the Diary of Edith Healy, Rome, October 9, 1868, Archives of American Art.

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Mary Cassatt, too, had been hard hit:
Mathews,
Mary Cassatt: A Life
, 75.

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In 1866, at twenty-one:
Ibid., 29.

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I think she has a great deal of talent:
Eliza Haldeman to Mrs. Samuel Haldeman, May 15, 1867, Mathews, ed.,
Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters
, 46.

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“It is much pleasanter”:
Ibid., 54.

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“She is only an amateur”:
Mary Cassatt to Lois Cassatt, August 1, 1869, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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“Oh how wild I am”:
Mathews, ed.,
Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters
, 77.

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“The Hôtel de Ville”:
Ibid., 80.

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“Don’t be disheartened”:
Emily Sartain to her father, February 26, 1872, Moore College of Art.

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On one excursion:
Ibid., August 4, 1872.

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I must candidly confess: Galignani’s Messenger
, June 22, 1872.

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“Velázquez oh!”:
Mathews, ed.,
Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters
, 103.

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“She astonished me”:
Ibid., 124.

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Mary Cassatt had been born:
Sweet,
Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania
, 7.

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Her father, Robert Simpson Cassatt:
Ibid.

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But the mother and father:
Ibid., 18.

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At sixteen Mary:
Mathews,
Mary Cassatt: A Life
, 14.

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When, at twenty:
Ibid., 26.

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The summer of 1874:
Ibid., 92.

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“Miss Cassatt’s tall figure”:
Mathews,
Cassatt: A Retrospective
, 86.

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Once having seen her:
Ibid.

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“I felt that Miss Cassatt”:
Mathews,
Mary Cassatt: A Life
, 101.

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“Miss C. is a tremendous talker”:
Emily Sartain to her father, May 25, 1875, Moore College of Art.

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Emily went home:
See Mathews, ed.,
Cassatt and Her Circle: Selected Letters
, 70, n. 1.

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“I would go there”:
Mathews,
Mary Cassatt: A Life
, 114.

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She took Louisine:
Hale,
Mary Cassatt
, 54.

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The price was 500 francs:
Ibid.

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To learn to paint:
Mathews,
Cassatt: A Retrospective
, 195.

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“happy American youths”:
Weinberg,
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
, 199.