John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere features the artist John Singer Sargent, creator of the infamous Madame X painting, but what's the true story?

John Singer Sargent was born in the mid-1850s in Florence, Italy, to American parents. His elevated position in society allowed him to pursue the arts, not as merely a decorator, ...

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 ...

John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), 1883–84, detail.Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

After two years of traveling, "Madame X" — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it's the star of a new exhibit ,"Sargent and ...

The retrospective brings together over 50 works that highlight the portraitist’s interest in how the clothes make the man, or woman. In 1882, John Singer Sargent and his subject Virginie Amélie ...

John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris in 1874. ... Here is a woman unabashed in her beauty, a woman who knows that her portrait is worth painting.

In “The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World,” Fisher provides a comprehensive and engaging biography of the artist, from his peripatetic youth traveling throughout Europe to his ...

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 ...

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 ...