Jessica Fripp - Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France

Acknowledgments

THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT FRIENDSHIPprofessional, personal, familialand I have many individuals to thank that represent the diverse relationships that fall under the umbrella of friendship. The late Mary Vidal, who advised my undergraduate thesis at the University of California San Diego, inspired my love of the eighteenth century. During my time in the masters program at Williams College and the Clark Art Institute, Mark Ledbury encouraged me to think about the connection between social networking and eighteenth-century portraiture. Susan Siegfried helped me develop these initial ideas into a dissertation at the University of Michigan that eventually became this book. I am eternally grateful for her generosity as an adviser, and her thoughtful commentary on this project over the years. She continues to go above and beyond in her role as mentor. Dena Goodman provided an important introduction to the intellectual and cultural history of the Enlightenment when I was a graduate student. This book would be poorer without her numerous insights. Patricia Simons sent me many portraits relevant to this study during her travels, and has been a welcomed sounding board over the years.

Laura Auricchio, Daniella Berman, Kenneth Loiselle, Katie Hornstein, Melissa Hyde, Elizabeth Mansfield, and Andrew Ross generously provided feedback on various chapters. I would like to thank my colleagues at Texas Christian University: Babette Bohn, Frances Colpitt, Lori Diel, Sara-Jayne Parsons, Richard Lane, Rachel Livedalen, and Mark Thistlethwaite for their encouragement. Hannah Plank served as an invaluable research assistant. Other members of the Metroplex art history community, including Denise Amy Baxter, Amy Freund, Nicole Myers, and George Shackelford, have made North Texas a welcoming and intellectually stimulating place to live and work. I am truly grateful to be part of the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, whose memberstoo many to list hereare a continuous source of support and make conferences productive, interesting, and fun.

Funding for this project came from a number of generous sources. A Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant and a Bourse Chateaubriand allowed me to begin my initial research at the Institut national dhistoire de lart in Paris with the support of Philippe Bordes and Anne Lafont. The Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan also provided funding for research. At Texas Christian University, a Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, the Research and Creative Activity Fund, and the Robert and Mary Jane Sunkel Art History Endowment allowed me to finalize my research and helped finance the books production. None of this work would have been possible without access to works of art and archives provided by the Kungliga Bibliothek in Stockholm, the Bibliothque nationale de France, the Centre de documentation and the Dpartement des arts graphiques at the Muse du Louvre, and the library of the Institut national dhistoire de lart in Paris. I spent many hours in the collection of the Muse Atger in Montpellier aided by Hlne Lorblanchet. In Besanon, Marie-Claire Waille at the Bibliothque dtudeet de conservation and Ghislaine Courtet at the Muse des beaux-arts et darchologie guided me through the enormous amount of material on Pierre-Adrien Pris. Nadine Lopez at the Muse des beaux-arts of Marseille allowed me to see works in the collection even though the museum was closed for renovation. Martin Olin and Ulf Cederlf provided access to the drawing collection at the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Denis Reynaud introduced me to the Acadmie des sciences, belles lettres et arts de Lyon, so that I could consult the discours of Donat Nonnotte. Portions of the book have been read at many conferences over the years. Parts of the Introduction and Chapter 2 were published in the volume I co-edited with Amandine Gorse, Nathalie Manceau, and Nina Struckmeyer, Artistes, savants et amateurs: art et sociabilit au XVIIIe sicle (17151815) (Paris: Mare et Martin, 2016). Part of Chapter 4, on Franois-Andr Vincents caricatures, was published in Eighteenth-Century Studies 52, no. 1 (Fall 2019).

Caroline Weavers astute editorial eye helped get the original manuscript into presentable shape. I would like to thank Julia Oestreich, the director of the University of Delaware Press, Sarah Cohen, director of the Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture series, and the series editorial board for their support of this project; and my reviewers for their feedback. Finally, thank you to the team at Delaware and designer Robert Wiser for their hard work to bring it to fruition.

My most heartfelt thanks go to Christopher Leichtnam, who has been a dinner companion, conversation partner, translator, editor, and generous host over the years. Describing the friendship of the following people, formed over years and continents, would require a book in and of itself: Kate Anderson and Ross OConnell, Catherine Clark and Brian Jacobson, Daniella Berman, Bonnie Blackwell and Rachel Gollay, Heather Burns and Ray Darmstadt, Amanda and Scott DAquila, Elisa Foster, Graeme Hind and Sara-Jayne Parsons, Katie Hornstein and Viktor Witkowski, Charles Kang, Becca Krecek, Sean Kramer, Jacob Lewis and Melissa Dean, Rachel and Tim Livedalen, Tyson Leuchter, Katy and Matthew Pennington, Carolyn Purnell, Kathryn Sederberg, Pam Stewart, Andrew Ross, Jessica Spuehler, Michael Yonan and Jim Quinn, and the folks at the Boiled Owl.

My cats, Colbert and Stewart, have provided adorable distraction and probably created some typos along the way. Last, but not least, thank you to my family: Nicolette, Heather, Connor, Ryan, Brooklyn, Tanner, Matthew, and the Fripps, Packingtons, and Dovetons in South Africa and the UK. I dedicate this book to my parents, Lyn and Raymond, living proof that immigrants get the job done. I would be nowhere without your love and support.

Authors Note

All translations are my own, unless otherwise noted.

References to Salon criticism in the Deloynes collection include the stable URL to the digitized version in the collection of the Bibliothque nationale de France when available.

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Archival Collections

Acadmie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon, Lyon.

Archives nationales, Paris. Minutier central.

Bibliothque municipale de Besanon etude et conservation, Besanon.

Bibliothque de lInstitut national dhistoire de lart, Paris.

Bibliothque Nationale de France, Collection Deloynes, Paris.

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