The passage suggests that late-nineteenth-century biographers of Watteau considered the eighteenth century to be "witty and amiable" in large part because of A. what they saw as Watteau's typical eighteenth-century talent for transcending reality through art B. their opposition to the determinism that dominated late-nineteenth-century French thought C. a lack of access to historical source material concerning the early eighteenth century in France D. the nature of the image conveyed by the works of Watteau and his many imitators E. their political bias in favor of aristocratic regimes and societies