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 ...

Minor controversies can boil over, given the right temperature, into full-on imbroglios; such was the case in Paris in 1884, when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a ...

Though Sargent painted very few portraits after 1907, he began making sensitive charcoal studies by choice. Both of these drawings, in which Lady Anne Innes-Ker meets the viewer with a serious and ...

Wrapped in churning tendrils of pigment, several abstracted figures can be distinguished amongst a disjointed, technicolor landscape ... she completed sketches that she would later turn into ...

They’re part of a new exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of John Singer Sargent ... and 10 charcoal drawings dated between 1884 and 1923. Sargent’s subjects were ...