{"id":13752,"date":"2025-04-23T14:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13752"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:37:04","slug":"madame-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/23\/madame-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame X…?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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How John Singer Sargent\u2019s \u2018Madame X\u2019 Turned Paris High Society Upside Down<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

John Singer Sargent’s most iconic portrait ‘Madame X’ is the star of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition ‘Sargent and Paris.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by\u00a0Katie White<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Virginie Am\u00e9lie Avegno Gautreau) (1883\u201384). Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She was the sensation of Paris\u2014known for her dramatic patrician looks, a Roman nose, and a famously cinched waist, as well as her numerous extramarital affairs. But the biggest scandal of American-born socialite Virginie Am\u00e9lie Avegno Gautreau\u2019s life happened not in the boudoir but the salon\u2014when, in 1884, celebrated portrait painter\u00a0John Singer Sargent<\/a>\u00a0unveiled his daring vision of the alabaster beauty, a portrait only thinly veiled in anonymity, now known simply as:\u00a0Madame X<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,\u00a0Madame X<\/em>\u00a0(1883\u20131884) is today regarded as Sargent\u2019s most iconic portrait. The daring composition will soon star in the museum\u2019s forthcoming exhibition \u201cSargent and Paris<\/a>,\u201d which traces the years from Sargent\u2019s arrival in Paris at 18 in 1874 to Madame X\u2019s unveiling and aftermath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from artnet How John Singer Sargent\u2019s \u2018Madame X\u2019 Turned Paris High Society Upside Down John Singer Sargent’s most iconic portrait ‘Madame X’ is the star of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition ‘Sargent and Paris.’ by\u00a0Katie White She was the sensation of Paris\u2014known for her dramatic patrician looks, a Roman nose, and a famously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}