People get upset when it’s not on view,” said Stephanie L. Herdrich, curator of American painting and drawing at the Met.

But the damage had been done. Gautreau’s reputation was tarnished, if not ruined for some years, after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent, now an artistic pariah, fled Paris for ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent ... oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, novelists Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, actress Ellen Terry ...