“The jumping off point is the John Singer Sargent portrait “Madame X” from the 1880s and also Amy Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama in a couture dress,” said Laura Taylor, Mark Arts’ exhibitions ...
Artistic taste today is likely to dismiss Painter John Singer Sargent as briskly ... the reigning beauty of the hour, one Madame Gautreau (see cut). Sargent confided to a friend that Madame ...