The passage suggests that late-nineteenth-century biographers of Watteau considered the eighteenth century to be "wit...

"Those [Watteau's nineteenth-century admirers] who took . the inconvenient historical facts into consideration (40) did so only in order to refute the widely held . deterministic view that the content and style of an . artist's work were absolutely dictated by heredity . and environment. (For Watteau admirers, such . determinism was unthinkable" This seems to line up fairly closely with answer B. Why doesn't B work here?