An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...

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She was the sensation of Paris—known for her dramatic patrician looks, a Roman nose, and a famously cinched waist, as well as her numerous extramarital affairs. But the biggest scandal of ...

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 ...

“The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait “Madame X” from the 1880s and also Amy Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama in a couture dress,” said Laura Taylor, Mark Arts ...

John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X,” 1883-84, modeled by the precariously ... with aristocrats and wanted their own status-affirming portraits, Sargent found material and intellectual support.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.