“John Singer Sargent’s Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children,” at the Jewish Museum, reveals the British philanthropists Carl and Adèle Meyer, but one painting is the star.

“John Singer Sargent’s Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children,” at the Jewish Museum, reveals the British philanthropists Carl and Adèle Meyer, but one painting is the star.

John Singer Sargent thought he would be ruined by the reaction to his “Madame X” at the Paris Salon in 1884. Instead, the scandal around the workmade him even more popular.

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Lady Agnew (1882) on display at the Frick in 2014, loaned by the Photo: Michael Bodycomb. Courtesy: Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.

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John Singer Sargent was an American 19th Century artist who was born in 1856. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key ...

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris” exhibition builds to a single moment, a single painting and a single scandal in the life of the young American artist. In ...

Sargent expected his portrait of Gautreau (the painting now known as “Madame X”) to be a sensation at the Salon—and it was, but not in the way he hoped. The public hated it.

Charlotte Burckhardt was 20 years old when John Singer Sargent painted her portrait, entitled, “Lady with the Rose.” The oil-on-canvas painting, which was a bequest to the Metropolitan Museum from ...

John SInger Sargent’s portrait of Consuelo-Vanderbilt (around 1905) who backed welfare reforms such as free school meals and was also a supporter of women’s suffrage Photo: English Heritage ...

Left: John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883–1884, oil on canvas. (Photo courtesy of the Met) Center: John Singer Sargent, Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, 1880.