In part a biography of Samuel Jean Pozzi, a celebrated French gynecologist and Don Juan who is the red-robed subject of John Singer Sargent's sumptuous full-length portrait, "Dr. Pozzi at Home ...

Not so. Because someone recommended Julian Barnes' "The Man in the Red Coat." The man is Dr. Samuel Pozzi, and the red coat is the one he wears in John Singer Sargent's elegant 1881 oil portrait ...

John Singer Sargent Sargent’s 1881 portrait of Dr Samuel Pozzi looms out from the exhibition poster. Father of French gynaecology, lover of Sarah Bernhardt, Pozzi would soon meet his messy end ...

The narrative opens with an unlikely trio on a visit to London, as Count Robert Montesquieu, Prince Edmund de Polignac and Dr Samuel Pozzi are received by Henry James on the recommendation of John ...