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

People get upset when it’s not on view,” said Stephanie L. Herdrich, curator of American painting and drawing at the Met.

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John ... But Sargent was much more than a portrait painter. He was also a prolific landscape and figure artist, producing ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in ...

Courtesy of Tate And this episode’s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s most famous—and in its time, his most infamous—painting, Madame X (1883-84). A portrait of Virginie ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will be opening their latest exhibition on Sunday entitled Sargent & Paris.

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 ...