{"id":114745,"date":"2017-08-30T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=114745"},"modified":"2017-08-31T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:49:59","slug":"jamesian-perfume-henry-james-and-american-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/30\/jamesian-perfume-henry-james-and-american-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHenry James and American Painting\u201d at the Morgan Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_114746\" style=\"width: 2429px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13.-whistler-nocturne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114746\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13.-whistler-nocturne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2419\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13.-whistler-nocturne.jpg 2419w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13.-whistler-nocturne-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13.-whistler-nocturne-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13.-whistler-nocturne-1024x635.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James McNeill Whistler, <i>Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach<\/i>, 1872\u201378, oil on canvas. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Morgan Library is the perfect place to muse on Henry James: John Pierpont Morgan\u2019s scholarly sanctum, with those lapis columns and rare woods, is as much a tribute to costly good taste as to literature. James himself mused there on January 18, 1911; record of his attendance is on display in a logbook at the door to the summer-long exhibition \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/exhibitions\/henry-james\" target=\"_blank\">Henry James and American Painting<\/a>,\u201d curated by Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn and Declan Kiely and on view for another week and a half. It\u2019s possible that the Morgan\u2019s show on James\u2019s relationship with expatriate painters won\u2019t convert the uninitiated, but it will undoubtedly serve as a pilgrimage stop for the faithful. There are some titillating letters from James to a probable lover, and who doesn\u2019t love a Whistler? I heard my favorite lines from <em>The Ambassadors<\/em>, about the clink of unseen bracelets, when I paused in front of Frank Duveneck\u2019s portrait of Elizabeth Boott Duveneck: \u201cHer smile was natural and dim; her hat not extravagant; he had only perhaps a sense of the clink, beneath her fine black sleeves, of more gold bracelets and bangles than he had ever seen a lady wear.\u201d It was the wrong novel: Boott Duveneck was apparently the inspiration for the uncanny Pansy Osmond in <em>The\u00a0Portrait of a Lady<\/em>, not for the sophisticated Madame de Vionnet of <em>The Ambassadors<\/em>. But the Jamesian perfume is so pervasive you\u2019re bound to hear all manner of rustles and breaths\u2014that is, until you exit onto Madison Avenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114768\" style=\"width: 7127px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-what-maisie-knew-ml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114768\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-what-maisie-knew-ml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"7117\" height=\"8288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-what-maisie-knew-ml.jpg 7117w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-what-maisie-knew-ml-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-what-maisie-knew-ml-768x894.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-what-maisie-knew-ml-879x1024.jpg 879w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry James, <em>What Maisie Knew<\/em>\u00a0[1897], typescript of two chapters, with autograph\u00a0corrections.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_114767\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/frank-duveneck-portrait-of-elizabeth-boott-ml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114767\" class=\" wp-image-114767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/frank-duveneck-portrait-of-elizabeth-boott-ml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/frank-duveneck-portrait-of-elizabeth-boott-ml.jpg 2056w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/frank-duveneck-portrait-of-elizabeth-boott-ml-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/frank-duveneck-portrait-of-elizabeth-boott-ml-768x1517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/frank-duveneck-portrait-of-elizabeth-boott-ml-518x1024.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Elizabeth Boott Duveneck by Frank Duveneck.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114760\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/boughton-jenry-james-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114760\" class=\" wp-image-114760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/boughton-jenry-james-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/boughton-jenry-james-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/boughton-jenry-james-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/boughton-jenry-james-1-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/boughton-jenry-james-1-662x1024.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Boughton, <em>Henry James<\/em>,\u00a01906, gelatin silver print.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114752\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sargent-of-robert-louis-stevenson-and-wife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114752\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sargent-of-robert-louis-stevenson-and-wife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sargent-of-robert-louis-stevenson-and-wife.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sargent-of-robert-louis-stevenson-and-wife-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sargent-of-robert-louis-stevenson-and-wife-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sargent-of-robert-louis-stevenson-and-wife-1024x852.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Singer Sargent, <em>Robert Louis\u00a0Stevenson and His Wife<\/em>, 1885, oil on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114769\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-project-of-a-novel-ml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114769\" class=\" wp-image-114769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-project-of-a-novel-ml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-project-of-a-novel-ml.jpg 6513w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-project-of-a-novel-ml-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-project-of-a-novel-ml-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/james-project-of-a-novel-ml-831x1024.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry James, Project of a Novel\u00a0(outline for <em>The Ambassadors<\/em>), September 1,\u00a01900.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114770\" style=\"width: 736px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/william-james-portrait-of-henry-james-ml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114770\" class=\" wp-image-114770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/william-james-portrait-of-henry-james-ml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/william-james-portrait-of-henry-james-ml.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/william-james-portrait-of-henry-james-ml-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/william-james-portrait-of-henry-james-ml-768x902.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/william-james-portrait-of-henry-james-ml-872x1024.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William James Jr., <em>Portrait of Henry\u00a0James<\/em>, 1910, oil on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Julia Berick is development and events director of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morgan Library is the perfect place to muse on Henry James: John Pierpont Morgan\u2019s 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