“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale. By Karen Rosenberg The preternaturally astute ...

It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the most-talked about painter” in the most important nexus of the Western art world, as one critic wrote at the time.