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A Bibliographic Note from the Author

The Autumn of Watteau is a love story in the traditional sense - indeed, it is a novel with two love stories – but in many ways it is also a love story about doing research and the excitement of tracking down books. So, to better convey this part of the love story, the following bibliography will point the interested reader towards the sources used by the author as she (and Beth!) went along their journey, stage by stage, book by book. It was the truest kind of treasure hunt, with one source leading to the next.

In a bibliography of this kind, it is usual for writers to acknowledge the libraries they used along the way and the gracious assistance of the librarians who helped them. In this case, all the gratitude goes to just one single library: the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., whose unparalleled collections are available to one and all for the price of a free card of registration. Because of this, one wishes to thank not only the librarians who cultivated these collections with such passionate dedication and knowledge, but also the citizens of the United States, who have collectively established and maintained this great institution through the centuries, recognizing the importance for democracy of a national library as rich and comprehensive as the world itself.

Selected Sources and Bibliography

Like most books, The Autumn of Watteau is something of a tapestry, woven from tangled strands of art and history. For purposes of this bibliography, these strands are divided into four component parts.

I. Colonial French Louisiana

First-Hand Sources

  1. Antoine Le Page du Pratz. The History of Louisiana: or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina. Translated from Histoire de la Louisiane. 3 vols. (Paris ,1758). London: printed for T. Becket, 1774.

  2. Dumont de Montigny. Historical Memoirs of M. Dumont de Montigny in B. F. French, ed. Historical Collections of Louisiana; embracing many rare and valuable documents relating to the natural, civil, and political history of that state. Translated from Mémoires historiques de la Louisiane (Paris, 1735). New York, 1853.

  3. Bernard de La Harpe. Historical Journal of the Establishment of the French in Louisiana. Translated from Journal historique de l'établissement des Français à la Louisiane (New Orleans, 1831). New York, 1851.

  4. Louis Hennepin. Account of the Discovery of the River Mississippi, and the Adjacent Country by Father Louis Hennepin. Translated from the Nouveau voyage d’un pais plus grand que l’Europe. New York, 1846.

  5. Andre Penicaut. Annals of Louisiana, from the First Colony under M. d'Iberville to the Departure of the Author to France, in 1722. Translated from a copy of the original manuscript deposited in the Bibliothèque du roi, Paris. New York, 1869.

    Secondary Sources

  6. Paul Mapp, “French Geographic Conceptions of the Unexplored American West and the Louisiana Cession of 1762” in French Colonial Louisiana and the Atlantic World, edited by Bradley G. Bond, pp. 134-172. Baton Rouge, 2005.

  7. Patricia D. Woods, “The French and the Natchez Indians in Louisiana: 1700-1731” in Louisiana History 19 (1978), pp. 413-435.

  8. Morris S. Arnold, “The Myth of John Law’s German Colony on the Arkansas,” in Louisiana History 31 (1990), pp. 83-88.

II. Regency France

  1. Christine Pevitt. The Man Who Would be King: The Life of Philippe d’Orleans, Regent of France, 1674-1723. London, 1997.

  2. M.A. Boyer. Dictionnaire Royal François-Anglois et Anglois-François: Tiré des Meilleurs Auteurs qui ont Écrit dans Ces Deux Langues. London, 1816.

  3. James D. Hardy, Jr. “The Transportation of Convicts to Colonial Louisiana” in Louisiana History 7 (1966), pp. 207-220.

  4. Mathé Allain, “French Emigration Policies: Louisiana, 1699-1715,” in Proceedings of the Fourth Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Washington, D.C., 1979, pp. 39-46.

  5. Maria Kroll (editor and translator). Letters from Liselotte: Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine and Duchess of Orléans, ‘Madam’ 1652-1722. London, 1970

III. Pierre Crozat and 18th-Century Art Collecting

  1. Émile Dacier and Albert Vuaflart. Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII siècle. 4 vols. Paris, 1921-1929.

  2. Edmond de Goncourt. Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Dessiné et Gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875.

  3. Benedict Lea, “An Art Book and its Viewers: The Recueil Crozat and the Uses of Reproductive Engraving,” in Eighteenth-Century Studies 38 (2005), pp. 623-649.

  4. Jervis Simon, “Mariette’s Annotated Copies of the Tallard and Jullienne Sale Catalogues,” in The Burlington Magazine 131 (August 1989).

  5. Cordélia Hattori, “The Drawings Collection of Pierre Crozat (1665-1740),” in Collecting Prints and Drawings in Europe 1500-1750, edited by Christopher Baker, Caroline Elam, and Genevieve Warwick. Aldershot, 2003, pp.173-181.

  6. Barbara Scott, “Pierre Crozat: A Maecenas of the Régence,” in Apollo 97 (1973), pp. 11-20.

IV. Antoine Watteau: Techniques and Artistic Milieu

  1. Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Pierre Rosenberg, with Nicole Parmantier. Watteau, 1684-1721. Exhibition catalogue National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1984.

  2. Katherine Baetjer, ed. Watteau, Music, and Theatre. With an introduction by Pierre Rosenberg and an essay by Georgia J. Cowart. Exhibition catalogue Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New Haven and London, 2009.

  3. Donald Posner. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca, 1984.

  4. Mary Vidal. Watteau’s Painted Conversations: Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France. New Haven, 1982.

  5. Martin Eidelberg, “Pierre Quillard (1704-1733),” in Capolavori dalla collezione di Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, edited by Maria de Peverelli, pp. 68-73. Lugano, 1997.

  6. Cordélia Hattori, “De Charles de La Fosse à Antoine Watteau: les Saisons Crozat,” in Revue du Louvre, April 2001, pp. 56-65.

  7. Michael Levey, “The Real Theme of Watteau’s Embarkation to Cythera,” in The Burlington Magazine 103 (1961), pp. 180-185.

  8. Larry J. Feinberg and Frank Zuccari, “A Rediscovered Fete champêtre by Watteau in the Art Institute of Chicago,” in The Burlington Magazine 139 (1997), pp. 180-185.

  9. Martin Eidelberg, “Watteau’s Rêve de L’Artiste Unveiled,” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, October, 2002, pp. 217-232.

  10. Martin Eidelberg, “How Watteau Designed His Arabesques,” in Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 8 (2003), pp. 68-79.

  11. Martin P. Eidelberg, “Watteau’s Use of Landscape Drawings,” in Master Drawings 5 (1967), pp. 173-182.

  12. Martin Eidelberg, “The Jullienne Spring by Antoine Watteau,” in Apollo 124 (1986), pp. 98-103

  13. Michael Levy, “A Watteau Rediscovered: Le Printems for Crozat,” in The Burlington Magazine 106 (1964), pp. 53-58.

  14. K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau. London, 1931.

  15. JoLynn Edwards, “Watteau Drawings: Artful and Natural,” in Antoine Watteau: Perspectives on the Artist and the Culture of His Time, edited by Mary D. Sheriff, University of Delaware Press, 2006, pp. 41-62.