Acknowledgements
This book is the product of a decade of research and writing, and my debts are many, to art historians, historians, curators, archivists, and librarians. I especially thank the historians whose scholarship has helped shape this study, several of whom generously assisted me: Pascal Bertrand, Thomas Crow, Paula R. Radisich, Robin Middleton, Charlotte Guichard, Maurice Hamon, Christian Michel, Kristel Smentek, Danielle Rice, Neil Jeffares, Thierry Claeys, John Rogister, and Gail Feigenbaum. I am deeply indebted to the Archives nationales de France, the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and to the extraordinarily valuable Open Access and Creative Commons projects, and especially to Parismusées, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Musées des Beaux-Arts at Strasbourg, Valence, Tours, and Dunkerque, photographer Emmanuel Watteau, the Musée de la Vénerie in Senlis, the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Dallas Art Museum, The Harvard Art Museums, and the Wellcome Collection. I am deeply grateful to the private collectors who generously allowed access to study works in their collection and provided images of them. At Brill Publishers, I especially thank Walter Melion, Wilma de Weert and Ivo Romein. My warm thanks go to the University of Missouri-Kansas City, especially my colleagues Kati Toivanen, Beth Vonnahme, Margaret Kinkeade, Burton Dunbar, and Robert Cohon. My deepest debts are to Michael P. Fitzsimmons and Emmanuel Harris, for their support, friendship, and unwavering encouragement.