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Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent · 1884 · Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)

The story

Virginie Gautreau in a black evening dress with a fallen jewelled strap, her skin painted lavender-pale. Painted in 1884 — the Paris Salon scandal that drove Sargent to London.

Artist
John Singer Sargent
Year
1884
Where it lives
Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
Rights
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