An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the Paris ...

Sargent expected his portrait of Gautreau (the painting now known as “Madame X”) to be a sensation at the Salon—and it was, but not in the way he hoped. The public hated it. They thought ...

Now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Madame X (1883–1884) is today regarded as Sargent’s most iconic portrait. The daring composition will soon star in the ...

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 ...

Having cycled through many emotions looking at the painting, I started to wonder who made Madame X’s dress? In Deborah Davis’s 2003 book Strapless (a fascinating read), the author definitively ...

“Madame X” and her circle have been covered extensively, including in Deborah Davis’s book “Strapless” and Gioia Diliberto’s work of historical fiction “I Am Madame X.” John Singer ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...