With Éclat: The Boston Athenæum and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. A Académie des Beaux-Arts of the French Institute, 62 Adams, John Quincy, 26, 29 Albrett, Lewis, 106 Alexander, emperor of Russia, 24 Alexander, Francis, 24 Alhambra, Spain, 104 Allston, Washington, 24, 30, 98, 99 Elijah in the Desert, 94, 98 Allston Club, 68–69, 98 Allston Hall, 42 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 22 American Social Science Association, 73–76, 78, 130 Andrews, William T., 31 Anthology Reading-room and Library, 17 Anthology Society, 17 Appleton, Nathan, 66 Appleton, Samuel, 40 Appleton, Thomas Gold, 66, 104, 123, 130, 134 Architectural Room (MFA), 129 Art Institute of Chicago, The, 12 Arundel Society, 99, 120, 132, 147, 157 Assyria, 131 Athena, 17 Athens, 141 Austria, 85 B Back Bay, 46, 51, 52, 105, 107, 120, 124, 130, 137, 143, 146, 147, 156, 161 Baltimore, 86 Barbizon School, 38, 65–66, 98, 118 Barnard, James M., 74, 75, 76 Barnum, P. T., 60 Bartlett, Francis, 146 Bass, Seth, 30 Bassano, Jacopo, 114 Baudelaire, Charles, 57 Baugniet, Charles, 98 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 56, 59, 60 Berlin Museum, 101, 141, 142 Berlioz, Hector, 58 Bigelow, Kennard, and Company, 99, 102 Blake, Stanton, 145–146 Bolton, Charles Knowles, 156, 157 Borghese collection, 21 [ 227 ] INDEX British Museum, London, 84, 93, 102, 110 Bromfield, John, 40 Brown, Ford Madox, 67 Bryant, Gridley J. F., 107 Building Committee (MFA), 79, 105–113 Burckhardt, Jacob, Der Cicerone, 61 Byron, Lord George, 57 C Cabot, Edward Clarke, 33, 44, 54, 64, 74, 79, 135 “Design for Adding a Fine Art Gallery to Boston Athenæum,” 44, 45 “First Floor,” 36, 37 Cabot, James Elliot, 54, 79, 105, 129, 150, 156 Callahan, Eliza Greene, 53 Cannes, France, 142 Canova, Antonio, statue of Venus, 24 Carracci, Annibale (attributed to), Portrait of a Man, 25, 26 Cary, Thomas Greaves, 33, 54 Castellani, Alessandro, 122–123, 123, 124–127, 128 Castellani, Augusto, 122 Castellani, Fortunato Pio, 122 Castellani collection, 122–127, 161 Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 99–103 Cesnola collection, 99–103, 116, 132 Chicago, 112 China, 20, 120 Church, Frederic Edwin, 38, 66–67 Andes of Ecuador, 66–67 Cicéri, Eugène, Study from Nature, Sketch at Fontainebleau, 65 Cincinnati, 86 Civil War, 12, 42 Cleveland, 86 Cleveland, Henry Russell, 54 Cleveland, Sarah Perkins, 54, 56, 94, 148 Boston, 18–21, 24, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 38, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51–53, 56, 58–76, 79, 85–95, 98, 105, 107, 112, 114, 123, 124, 137, 140, 148, 152, 159–162 Boston Art Club, 68, 73, 94, 137 Boston Athenæum, The, 11–15, 56, 58, 59, 63, 65, 69, 70, 80, 89, 95, 97, 159–162 changing directions after 1876, 137–158 of 1807–1870, 17–49 and Museum of Fine Arts, 1870–1876, 97–135 Perkins brothers and Boston’s changing taste, 51–76 Boston Athenæum, The (1852), 35 Boston Episcopal Charitable Society, 63 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Square and Dartmouth Street, 108, 108 Boston Museum of Natural History, 52 Boston Music Hall, 51, 58–59, 59, 60, 105 Boston Public Garden, 52 Boston Public Library, 33–34, 51, 75, 77, 80, 105, 130 Boston School Committee, 73, 86, 87, 88 Boston Society of Natural History, 46, 51 Boston Symphony Orchestra, 60 Boston Theater, 98 Boston Water Power Company, 105 Boucher, François, 98 Halt at the Spring, 98 Return from Market, 98 Brackett, Edward Augustus, Shipwrecked Mother and Child, 156 Bracquemond, Félix, 60 Bradlee, John Tisdale, 78, 163–164 Brahmins, Boston, 14–15, 52–53, 107 Brainard, Erastus, 151 Braun, Adolphe, 120, 132, 144, 146, 147, 157 Brewer, Mrs. Gardner, 145 Brigham, Charles, 107–113 Brimmer, George Watson, 23 Brimmer, Martin, 65, 75, 78, 79, 79, 80, 90, 105, 108, 110, 118, 123, 124, 137, 140, 149–150, 154, 164–165 index [ 228 ] Cobb, Samuel Crocker, 82 Codman, Arthur, 114 Codman, Charles Russell, 23 Codman, Frances Anne, 108 Cole, Henry, 84 Cole, Thomas, 38 The Course of Empire, 66 Committee of Fifty (MFA), 106 Committee on the Museum (MFA), 93–94, 97, 103, 104, 105, 107, 113, 119, 128, 130, 140, 142, 147, 150, 151, 153, 154, 158 Conservatory of Art, Science, and Historical Relics, 52 Copley, John Singleton, 98, 99 Copley Square, 79, 105, 113, 154, 161 Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, 118 Courbet, Gustave, The Quarry (La Curée), 98 Couture, Thomas, 65 Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 57 Crawford, Louisa...