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 ...

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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 ...