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

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

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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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...