It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so shocking?

John Singer Sargent is noted for his ability to capture the essence of a person’s character. In his portrait of Elizabeth ...

Conjure a painter who possessed all the qualities of a true bon vivant – youthful charm, sophistication, good looks, and bold ...

Renowned for his portrait paintings, John Singer Sargent was one of the most remarkable artists of the Edwardian era. He combined influences and left careful references, including those to the works ...

In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled ... works in the exhibition, student drawings, show Sargent’s extraordinary precocity.

John Singer Sargent’s 1884 ... to settle on an effective pose. Sargent painted her listlessly drinking a toast by candlelight, and his lightning pencil sketches suggest Gautreau’s restless ...

To mark 100 years since the death of the painter John Singer Sargent, English Heritage has ... The portraits, a mixture of oil and charcoal sketches, are on display at Kenwood in Hampstead ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition ... to paint without preparatory sketches — to let instinct ...

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925 ... Brown curator of American painting and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and co-curator of “Sargent and Paris”, a sweeping new show ...

Gautreau’s reputation was tarnished, if not ruined for some years, after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent ... laziness of Madame Gautreau.” Sketches from the era show Gautreau ...