After two years of traveling, "Madame X" — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it's the star of a new exhibit ,"Sargent and ...

The distance between the Stoclet Madonna and Simone’s image of a petulant, teenage Christ, glared at by his angry father and mildly reproved by his gentle mother, is both astonishing and subtle.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884.