Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents ...

John Singer Sargent, “Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts ... 1875–80), oil on canvas; right: Detail of hand in John Singer Sargent, “Edouard Pailleron” (1879), oil on canvas ...

John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the sinuous contours of whom have been in the museum’s permanent collection ...

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

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Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a stir at their unveilings, Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be opening their latest exhibition on Sunday entitled Sargent & Paris.

explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884. Sargent was just 18 ...

Courtesy of Tate And this episode’s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s most famous—and in its time, his most infamous—painting, Madame X (1883-84). A portrait of Virginie ...

Sargent & Paris,' at the Met, is the moving story of an ambitious ingenue prior to his co-option by the ruling class.