“The Madame X Files,” by Hamish Bowles, was originally published in the January 1999 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia newsletter here ...

The victim was known by a number of names over the years including Madame le Grys, Mary Kathleen Douglas Hamilton, Holly ...

Known at the time as “Madame X,” the full-length image showed a woman in a low-cut black dress, with the jeweled right shoulder strap sliding down her preternaturally white arms.She is seen in ...

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the masterpiece.

Although Vogue was founded eight years after Madame X made her debut, it’s there I started digging deeper. A Félix dress was featured in the magazine’s first issue, dated December 17, 1892.

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 ...

By the time “Madame X” makes her entrance, we are primed to see its subject as both an individual and a type — and to recognize her and Sargent as creators of this enduringly audacious work.

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 ...

Before 'Madame X,' John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. Philip Kennicott. Sat, May 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC. 7 min read. NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ...

Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.