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

She’s back. After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer ... art patron Isabella Stewart Gardner all sat for him. Raised in Europe by an American expatriate family, Sargent ...

The show at New York’s Met covers Sargent’s journey to becoming the hottest portrait painter in Paris, and includes his ...

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 ...

Courtesy of Tate And this episode’s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s most famous—and in its time, his most infamous—painting, Madame X (1883-84). A portrait of Virginie ...

European-American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is remembered for his impressive, large-scale portraits of British, French, and American socialites, intellectuals, politicians, and other ...