Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unk…

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