The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (6 page)
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Authors: David Mccullough
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The rue de Rivoli, with the Louvre on the left.
Writer Nathaniel Willis loved Paris from the start, but conceded, “It is a queer feeling to find oneself a
foreigner
.”
A typical high-fashion French couple of the 1830s.
The Marquis de Lafayette
by Samuel F. B. Morse, painted for the City of New York at the time of Lafayette’s triumphal return to America in 1825–26.
Samuel F. B. Morse
, a self-portrait painted at age twenty-seven.
James Fenimore Cooper
by John Wesley Jarvis, painted when Cooper was thirty-three.
On the following pages: Morse’s
Gallery of the Louvre
, with Morse and student in the foreground, unidentified student to the right, Cooper with his wife and daughter in the left hand corner, Morse’s friend Richard Habersham painting at far left, and (it is believed) sculptor Horatio Greenough in the open doorway to the Grand Gallery.
George P. A. Healy,
self-portrait painted at age thirty-nine. Like nearly all American art students, Healy spent long hours at the Louvre making copies of works by the masters.
Schoolmistress Emma Willard, champion of higher education for American women, was delighted by the number of women at work on copies at the Louvre.
Four O’Clock: Closing Time at the Louvre
by François-Auguste Biard. Americans were astonished by the spectacle of so many people of every kind taking an interest in art.
Art-Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery,
wood engraving by Winslow Homer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Henry Bowditch.
