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References: 1. Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'Ecole Française au XIXe Siécle, (Paris: H. Champion, 1914-1921). 2. Anne Wagner, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), pp. 175-207. 3. For biographical information see Lami, pp. 108-111; and Edouard Lepage, Une Page de l'Histoire de l'Art du XIXe Siécle: Une Conquête Féministe, Mme Léon Bertaux, (Paris: J. Dangon, 1912). 4. Dosier Achat, Groupe en Bronze, (carton F/21/118), Archives Nationales, Paris. 5. For a somewhat sensational account of Mathilde's life and social milieu, see Joanna Richardson, Princess Mathilde, (London: C. Tinling and Co., 1969). For a discussion of Nieuwerkerke within the context of the Second Empire, see Patricia Mainardi, Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), pp.35-36. 6. Letter from Bertaux to an unnamed "Madame," undated (ca. 1861), from Dossier Bertaux, (carton F/21/118), Archives Nationales, Paris. See also letter from Bertaux to the Ministre d'Etat, 17 May 1861 from the same dossier. 7. Letter from Bertaux to Napoleon III, ca. June 1867, from Dossier Achat: bas-relief en bronze: l'Assomption, (carton F/21/118), Archives Nationales, Paris. 8. Ibid. |
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