explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884. Sargent was just 18 ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where art historian Elizabeth Block works, there’s always a crowd near John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (1884). Everyone wants to spy that black slinky dress ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his ... The picture, which became known as Madame X, crippled Sargent's hopes of establishing himself ...