HBO’s high-society drama just introduced the portraitist who knew how to flatter the one percent better than anyone.

John Singer Sargent's "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” (1882). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sargent made portraits of them all, and the one of the two children is among his most striking works.

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 ...

Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling. The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

To mark 100 years since the death of the painter John Singer Sargent, English Heritage has put on a show of 18 portraits of American heiresses that places their lives and notable achievements at ...

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.

John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883–84. Photo: Heritage Images / Getty Images “Sargent and Paris” at the Met is a must-see.

Seemingly spun from sheer lace and diaphanous silk, the bias cut gown spilt off her shoulders, and made her look like one of the heiresses from a portrait by American artist John Singer Sargent. Also ...

NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884).New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. ... Gautreau wears upon her head the most delicate and petite of tiaras—a diamond crescent moon, ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career, before and after that infamous portrait of Madame X in 1884.