FTP identify this notorious portrait which was exhibited without Mrs. Gautreau's name, a work by John Singer Sargent.
An unfinished second version hangs at the Tate, and its creator worked on the painting throughout the summer of 1883 at the subject's summer house in Brittany. That subject was the daughter of an Italian ?igr?to Louisiana who had died at the Battle of Shiloh. One hand holds a black fan that matches her dress, while the other is balanced on a table. She looks away to the viewer's right as if to expose more of the porcelain, white skin that the painter emphasized with the flimsy bejeweled straps and the low cut top. FTP identify this notorious portrait which was exhibited without Mrs. Gautreau's name, a work by John Singer Sargent.
An unfinished second version hangs at the Tate, and its creator worked on the painting throughout the summer of 1883 at the subject's summer house in Brittany.
Portrait of Madame X