As a family we recently visited the Tate Gallery in London to see this exhibit:
‘Madame X’ was one of the paintings on display. In it’s time this painting by John Singer Sargent scandalized Paris
Madame Pierre Gautreau [Virginie Amélie Avegno, 1859-1915], ‘Madame X’painted by John Singer Sargent, 1883
A well-researched account of the painting of ‘Madame X’ can be read in this blog: Why Madame X Scandalized the Art World by Alina Cohen.
30 May 1891, The Graphic:
21 February 1898, The Globe:
9 December 1908, The Sketch:
25 July 1915, death of ‘Madame X’, aged 56 years, at 16e Arrondissement, Paris:
