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

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

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 ... been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished,” wrote one critic in a 1925 obituary. But before he became the hottest portrait painter in France ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...