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

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in collaboration with Paris's Musée d'Orsay, is dedicating until August 3 to American ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career ...

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is justifiably known for his renditions of beautiful belle époque socialites. “To have been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished ...

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 ...