The subject of this painting drinks a toast in a portrait made a year earlier that is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum.
The subject of this painting drinks a toast in a portrait made a year earlier that is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. The Met displays this painting near a portrait by William Merritt Chase of Marietta Benedict Cotton that references a table in this painting. Arsenic treatments may be the cause of the unusually white skin of the subject of this non-commissioned painting. The significant amount of criticism it drew at the Paris Salon of (*)  1884 caused its artist to retouch the shoulder strap of the dress of its Creole subject, whose face is rendered in profile. This painting depicts Virginie Gautreau, although its official title renders the subject anonymous. For 10 points, name this scandalous portrait of a woman in a black dress by John Singer Sargent.
The subject of this painting drinks a toast in a portrait made a year earlier that is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum.
Portrait of   Madame X  [or  Portrait de  Mme ***  ; accept  Portrait of Madame Pierre  Gautreau  until read; accept  Portrait of Virginie Amélie  Avegno  until Gautreau is read] 