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 | Madame X 1884 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | 
When Madame
X was shown at the Salon of 1884 it became instantly a salacious painting and a
scandal in French society as a result of its sexual suggestiveness of her pose
and the pail pasty color of her skin. The "X" of Madame X was
actually Madame Gautreau (1859-1915) who’s reputation was apparently destroyed and
John left France shortly to... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mademoiselle Suzanne Poirson c 1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1998, no. 120.
Sweet,
Frederick A., "Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt," (a catalogue of
the exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 14 through Feb. 25, 1954... | GA | igrkio |
 | Melle Judith Gautier a la Fourberie c. 1883-1885 |
From: Madeleine Bruchet
<mad ele ine.bru chet@wanadoo.fr>
Date:
Sunday, January 4, 2004
Do you know
of this picture of John Singer Sargent "Melle Judith Gautier à la Fourberie",
it is from Jean Faure Museum in Aix les Bains
'France)
I know the
place where he painted it: Saint Lunaire, just near Dinard where he stayed. I was born... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Albert Vickers 1884 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA |
Study for Portrait
Mrs. Albert Vickers
c. 1885
Sargent at Harvard
Charcoal on
off-white wove paper
33.3 x 23 cm
(actual)
Gift of Miss Emily
Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer
Sargent
Notes:
Thanks to
Pat Yates for sending me this image.
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 | Mrs. Henry White 1883 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mrs. Kate Moore 1884 |
A
millionairess from Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kate Moore (1846 -1917) became one of the
leading figures in Paris high society especially among the expatiate Americans.
She lavishly entertained. Sargent, no doubt was an invited guest to some. He
would paint her a number of times. She was 38 at the time of this painting.
Although certainly a good... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Katharine Moore 1884 Musee d'Orsay Paris, France |
Mrs. Kate Moore
Notes:
Bibliography
Léonce
Bénédite , Le Musée du Luxembourg, peinture école
étrangères. Musée annexe du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1924,
n°65;
Charles
Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, New York, Norton 1955, p. 82;
Charles
Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, Londres, 1957, n°843;
Cat. exp.
J. S.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Waldo Story 1883 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The
early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 104.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Sale 3749 (Apr. 17,
1975), lot 70.
Illustration:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Wilton Phipps 1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Nice 1883-1884 | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
