Though John Singer Sargent is mostly known for his mammoth portraits of patricians painted on commission, his earlier work (completed in Europe) has not seemed to have received nearly as much attention. That is rectified in a comprehensive exhibition now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which we enjoyed over the weekend.
Sargent and Paris explores the early career of this American painter from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a scandalous success at the Paris Salon.
We highly recommend this impressive show!
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