#Latest news with #VirginieAvegnoWashington Post3 days agoEntertainmentWashington PostBefore ‘Madame X,' John Singer Sargent was even more dazzlingNEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'Sargent and Paris' exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the Paris salon. It caused a sensation that still ripples today.
Washington Post3 days agoEntertainmentWashington PostBefore ‘Madame X,' John Singer Sargent was even more dazzlingNEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'Sargent and Paris' exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole woman named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the Paris salon. It caused a sensation that still ripples today.
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