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• Gustave Caillebotte: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures et Pastels (new edition, in French; Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994), by Marie Berhaut and Sophie Pietri, illust. by Gustave Caillebotte (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• Caillebotte: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre (in French; Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, c1978), by Marie Berhaut, illust. by Gustave Caillebotte (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• La Vie et L'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonné (2 volumes in French; Lausanne and Paris: Fondation Wildenstein, c1977-1978), by Robert Fernier (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• François Boucher (2 volumes, in French; Lausanne and Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, c1976), by Alexandre Ananoff and Daniel Wildenstein (page images with commentary at wpi.art)
• Fragonard (in French; Paris: Librairie de l'art, ca. 1890), by Félix Naquet
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1903), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, trans. by Lionel Strachey (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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• Reminiscences of the Impressionist Painters (Tower Press booklet #3; Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1906), by George Moore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Les Peintres de la Femme (in French; Paris: E. Dentu, 1888), by Claude Vento (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff (4th thousand; 2 volumes in French; Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 volumes; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (single-volume edition; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1890), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by Mathilde Blind
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (2 parts in 1 volume: Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, 1913), by Marie Bashkirtseff, trans. by A. D. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Louis Moreau: Un Peintre de Paysage au XVIIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, Édition d'Études et de Documents, 1923), by Georges Wildenstein, illust. by Louis Gabriel Moreau (page images with commentary at wpi.art)

• La Vie et L'Oeuvre de Gustave Courbet: Catalogue Raisonné (2 volumes in French; Lausanne and Paris: Fondation Wildenstein, c1977-1978), by Robert Fernier (page images with commentary at wpi.art)

• Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun (3rd American edition; New York: Worthington, c1879), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, ed. by Morris Franklin Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vigee Le Brun: Masterpieces in Colour (1922), by Haldane Macfall, illust. by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (illustrated HTML at batguano.com)
• Madame Vigee Le Brun (Boston: Bates and Gould Company, 1905)
  • illustrated HTML at batguano.com
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1903), by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, trans. by Lionel Strachey (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1755-1842 (Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1982), illust. by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (illustrated HTML at batguano.com)

• My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (1907 translation), by Sarah Bernhardt (Gutenberg text)

• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Souvenirs de Famille (1823-1866): Recueillis et Commentés (in French; Paris: Impr. Chromotypographique, 1897), by Amable Tronquoy, ed. by Lucien Tronquoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Reign of Louis XIV (4 volumes; 1977-1993), by François Souchal, Françoise de La Moureyre-Gavoty, and Henriette Dumuis (page images at wpi.art)
• Une Dynastie de Sculpteurs au XVIIIe Siècle: Les Lemoyne (in French; Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, Edition d'Etudes et de Documents, c1927), by Louis Réau (page images with commentary at wpi.art)

• Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by Lindsey V. Sharman (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)
• Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Ann Davis (PDF at University of Calgary)
• The House of All Sorts (1944), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Book of Small (1942), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), by Frank Budgen (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Retrospect of an Artist's Life, by John Kelso Hunter (HTML in Scotland)

• Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography (Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1923), by John Butler Yeats, contrib. by W. B. Yeats
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Culture of San Sepolcro During the Youth of Piero della Francesca (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by James R. Banker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leonardo da Vinci: A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Vincent van Gogh: A Biographical Study (2 volumes; London and Boston: Medici Society, 1922), by Julius Meier-Graefe, trans. by J. Holroyd-Reece, illust. by Vincent van Gogh (both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Thomas Eakins, Who Painted (electronic edition, with many added images; original book c1946), by Margaret McHenry, illust. by Thomas Eakins and Susan Macdowell Eakins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Francisco de Zurbarán (in French; Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994), ed. by María Luisa Caturla, trans. by Odile Delenda (page images with commentary at wpi.art)

• Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: A Retrospective (New York: Harry N. Abrams in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1978), by Diane Waldman, contrib. by Bernard Malamud and Clair Zamoiski (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Walt Kuhn, Painter: His Life and Work (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1978), by Philip Rhys Adams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Horace Pippin, a Negro Painter in America (New York: Quadrangle Press, 1947), by Selden Rodman, illust. by Horace Pippin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of James McNeill Whistler (sixth new and revised edition; Philadelphia: J. Lippincott Co.; London: WL Heinemann, ca. 1919), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist-Inventor (Champaign, IL: Garrard Pub. Co., c1961), by Jean Lee Latham, illust. by Jo Polseno (page images at HathiTrust)

• Horace Pippin, a Negro Painter in America (New York: Quadrangle Press, 1947), by Selden Rodman, illust. by Horace Pippin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales des Professeurs des Académies et Universités Alsaciennes, 1523-1871 (in French; Nancy: Impr. Berger-Levrault et cie, 1892), by Oscar Berger-Levrault
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Rough in Brutal Print: The Legal Sources of Browning's Red Cotton Night-Cap Country (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Mark Siegchrist (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogentsous-Coucy, by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by C. C. Swinton Bland (HTML at Fordham)

• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and company, 1917), by James R. McConnell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Flying for France, With the American Escadrille at Verdun, by James R. McConnell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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