demolition and reconstruction of, 207–8

  founding of, 104–5

  nuns of, 111

  rounds conducted in, 111–12

  surgeons of, 112–15

  wards of, 110–11

  Hôtel du Louvre, 218, 232, 248

  Hôtel d’York, 104

  Hôtel Meurice, 57

  Hôtel Windsor, 180

  House of Representatives, U.S., 7, 82, 129, 149, 152–53, 275, 277–78

  Appropriations Committee of, 277

  Commerce Committee of, 152–53, 277

  House of Representatives (Morse), 63, 65, 96, 100

  House of Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne), 215

  Houssaye, Henry, 395

  Howe, Samuel Gridley, 227–28

  Howells, John, 428

  Howells, William Dean, 333, 428, 433, 448

  Hugo, Victor, 10, 39–40, 46–47, 124, 174, 195, 201, 205, 207, 263

  Hulgren, Albertina, see Clark, Davida Humboldt, Alexander von, 93, 155, 181

  Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The (Notre-Dame de Paris) (Hugo), 39–40, 46, 207

  Hunt, Richard Morris, 183, 190–91, 405, 442

  Hunt, William Morris, 191, 220, 342, 442

  Île de la Cité, 25, 85, 87, 89, 104, 279

  bridges of, 40–41

  redesign and transformation of, 206–7, 208

  Immaculate Conception (Murillo), 332

  Imperial Library, 228

  Impressionists, 342, 351–52

  American art influenced by, 411–12

  Cassatt and, 342, 351–52, 389, 394

  first New York show of, 419

  Fourth Exhibition of, 387–88

  Incoronata, L’ (Correggio), 339

  Independence Hall (Philadelphia), 22, 64

  Indian Gallery, 172

  Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique, 220

  Innocents Abroad (Twain), 248

  Sargent and, 389

  Institut de France, 155, 443

  Interieur, Ministre de l’, 156

  Interior of a Cotton Broker’s Office at New Orleans, The (Degas), 352

  Invalides, 26

  Ireland, 12, 149

  emigration from, 210–11, 240

  Irving, Henry, 420

  Irving, Washington, 12–13, 199

  Isère, 405

  Italy, 35, 58, 62, 149, 186, 376

  Jackson, Andrew, 82–83, 94, 129, 144, 180

  Healy’s portrait of, 146–47

  Jackson, Charles, 152

  Jackson, James, Jr., 6, 15, 30, 51, 53, 69, 111, 114, 120, 124, 134, 136, 152

  cholera epidemic withstood by, 86–87, 89

  death of, 128–29

  Holmes and, 119

  as medical student, 107–8, 109, 110, 117–18, 123, 125–26

  Jackson, James, Sr., 6, 69, 125–26, 128–29, 135

  Jackson, Mrs. (daughter-in-law), 147

  Jaleo, El (Sargent), 397, 398, 410

  exuberance and drama of, 395

  James, Alice, 332

  James, Henry, 219, 228, 250, 334, 335, 337, 350, 396, 397, 401, 409, 428

  Paris sojourn of, 331–33

  James, William, 219, 332, 333, 348

  Jardin des Plantes, 104, 117, 121, 263

  Jarvis, John Wesley, 67

  Jay, John, 104

  Jefferson, Thomas, 3, 10–11, 39, 64, 65, 444

  influence of Hôtel de Salm on, 44

  as minister to France, 39, 180, 329

  Paris residence of, 46

  Sully’s portrait of, 63

  “John Brown’s Body,” 243, 373

  Johns Hopkins Medical School, 132

  Johnson, Samuel, 16

  Johnston, W. E., 291, 294, 298, 300

  Jones, George Frederick, 257

  Jouffroy, François, 254–56

  Journal de Paris, 158

  Journal des Débats, 173

  Joyce, Levin, 117

  Juárez, Benito, 251

  Julian, Rodolphe, 411

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 301

  July Revolution of 1830, 11, 58

  Kansas-Nebraska Act, 224

  Karr, Alphonse, 139

  Katherine Cassatt Reading to Her Grandchildren (Cassatt), 393

  Kearsarge, USS, 245

  Keats, John, 229

  Kennebec Journal, 276

  Kirk, Edward, 153–54, 155, 157

  Klumpke, Anna, 411

  Krupp, 248, 259

  Labouchère, Henry, 282, 288

  Labrouste, Henri, 408

  La Chapelle, Marie-Louise, 119

  Lady at the Tea Table (Cassatt), 419

  Lady Liberty, see Statue of Liberty

  Lady with the Rose (Sargent), 392, 395

  Laënnec, René, 124

  La Farge, John, 366, 380, 440, 442

  Lafayette, Marquis de, 4, 8, 10–11, 29, 61, 92, 120, 148, 234, 377

  Cooper and, 71–72

  death of, 129

  at 1832 Fourth of July celebration, 94–95

  Morse’s portrait of, 82–83

  Morse’s toast to, 94–95

  Willard and, 29, 58

  La Fontaine, Jean de, 10

  Lalouette’s, 222

  Lamartine, Alphonse de, 188, 227

  Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 447–48

  Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 4, 71, 174

  French edition of, 72

  Latin Quarter, 29, 54, 116, 119, 121, 221, 249, 255

  Le Brethon, Jules, 242–43

  Lebreton, Adélaïde-Charlotte, 261

  Lecomte, Claude, 307

  Lee, Custis, 336

  Lee, Robert E., 336

  Lee, Vernon, 390–93, 397, 398, 399, 420

  Left Bank, 29, 104, 144, 155, 247, 349, 365, 426, 435

  Prussian bombardment of, 298–99

  Lefuel, Hector-Martin, 191

  Legion of Honor, 321

  Le Havre, France, 20–21, 98

  L’Enfant, Pierre-Charles, 39

  Le Nôtre, André, 43

  Leonardo da Vinci, 47, 63, 90

  Leroi, Paul, 382

  Les Halles, 208

  Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix), 65

  Liberty Lighting the World (Bartholdi), see Statue of Liberty

  Lincoln, Abraham, 243, 244, 253, 273, 373

  Healy’s portrait of, 234–35, 336

  Saint-Gaudens’s portraits of, 430, 435

  Lionel Lincoln (Cooper), 71

  Lisfranc, Jacques, 112–13, 114, 132

  Lister, Joseph, 113

  Liszt, Franz, 10, 165

  Little Bighorn, Battle of, 350

  Little Wolf, 168–69, 171, 174–75

  Locust Grove, 231–32

  Lointier, 94

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 7, 33–34, 36, 197, 198–99, 218, 224, 227, 228, 230, 235, 329, 336, 424

  Longsword, William, 23–24

  Lorrain, Claude, 90

  Lorraine, 303

  Louis, Pierre-Charles-Alexandre, 105–6, 118, 130, 134–36, 192, 424

  American medical students and, 123–26, 128, 132–33

  Louis XVI, King of France, 41

  Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, see Napoleon III, Emperor of France

  Louis-Philippe, King of France, 11, 43, 44, 72, 94, 176, 181, 182, 185, 203, 207, 209, 260, 424

  abdication of, 183–84

  in America, 170

  at Catlin’s exhibition, 170–72

  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

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sp; 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