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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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 ...

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 ...

Sargent & Paris,' at the Met, is the moving story of an ambitious young painter prior to his co-option by the ruling class.

“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 ...

“Madame X” and her circle have been covered extensively ... absence of sunlight.” It was a portrait, however, that solidified his reputation in Paris. Appropriately enough, the subject ...

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

A highlight of the buildup to the portrait of Madame X is her infernal twin, Dr. Pozzi, a physician and socialite whom Sargent painted in luxurious leisure, swaddled in a rich red robe with white ...