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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...