The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere features the artist John Singer Sargent, creator of the infamous Madame X painting, but what ...

HBO’s high-society drama just introduced the portraitist who knew how to flatter the one percent better than anyone.

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

There have been countless retrospectives of portraitist John Singer Sargent, but now the 19th century painter is being shown in a brand new light.

Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris. May 31, 2025.

Maybe that’s simply who John Singer Sargent was, or at least fashioned himself to be: the court painter of gilded-age oligarchs, but also their party favorite and chum.

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

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884.

Before 'Madame X,' John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. Philip Kennicott. Sat, May 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM UTC. 7 min read. NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ...