Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)
A museum-exhibition poster of John Singer Sargent's Madame X — Madame X — the celebrated black-gowned portrait of Virginie Gautreau that scandalised the Paris Salon — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Portraits of the Gilded Age, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
- Year
- 1883–1884
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 208.6 × 109.9 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- American
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, an American-born Parisian society beauty, stands in profile in a black satin evening gown with jewelled straps, one hand resting on a round table, her powdered skin set off by the dark ground. Sargent pursued her for the commission himself, hoping to make his name at the Salon, and worked on the portrait from 1883 to 1884. When it was shown in Paris in 1884 the pose, the dress and a strap that originally slipped off her right shoulder caused a scandal that drove him to move to London; he repainted the strap and kept the canvas in his studio for thirty years. He sold it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1916, asking that the sitter's name be withheld, and called it the best thing he had done.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
