“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale. By Karen Rosenberg The preternaturally astute ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer Sargent made his fortune and reputation as a portrait painter of beautiful women and influential men. Presidents ...

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 ...

But the damage had been done. Gautreau’s reputation was tarnished, if not ruined for some years, after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent, now an artistic pariah, fled Paris for ...

An exhibition featuring his scandalous portrait ‘Madame X’ highlights John Singer Sargent’s early mastery as an expat artist ...

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is justifiably known for his renditions of beautiful belle époque socialites. “To have been painted by [Sargent] added distinction to the most distinguished ...

JMW Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise (around 1845), on display in the Clore Gallery at Tate Britain Photo: Courtesy of Tate And this episode’s Work of the Week is arguably John Singer Sargent’s ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...