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 ...

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 ...

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 ...