Madame X is a painting by John Singer Sargent. - AsNotedIn
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884/00/00 | John Singer Sargent | Painter | "Madame X" is exhibited at Salon 1884. Created in 30 sessions, Sargent chose the black dress (or two-piece skirt and bodice drawn in at the waist). Originally sketched as missing, one of Madame X's dress straps is shown off her shoulder. | Salon of 1884 | |||
| 1884/00/00 | Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau | Subject | "Madame X" is exhibited at Salon 1884. Created in 30 sessions, Sargent chose the black dress (or two-piece skirt and bodice drawn in at the waist). Originally sketched as missing, one of Madame X's dress straps is shown off her shoulder. | Salon of 1884 | |||
| 1905/03/00 | Sargent shows the Portrait of Madame X at the Carfax Gallery at 24 Bury St in London. From 1902 to 1905, the Carfax Gallery was located at 17 Ryder St. | Saint James's, London | |||||
| 1911/00/00 | Sargent exhibits the Portrait of Madame X at exhibitions in London (1908) and Berlin (1909) and Rome (1911). | ||||||
| 1915/02/00 | Desiring to firmly establish his reputation in America, Sargent sends the portrait of Gautreau across the Atlantic to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. | Palace of Fine Arts, SF | San Francisco | Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco | |||
| 1915/07/25 | Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau | Died | Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau dies in Cannes. She was buried in the Gautreau family crypt at their Chateau des Chenes in Saint-Malo, Brittany. | Saint-Malo, FR | Brittany | ||
| 1916/01/08 | John Singer Sargent | Painter | Sargent keeps his portrait until a year after Amelie's death in obscurity, when he sells it to the Met. Writing to the museum: "I should prefer, on account of the row I had with the lady years ago, that the picture should not be called by her name." | ||||
| 1916/01/22 | John Singer Sargent | Painter | After getting Sargent's offer of Madame X, Robinson writes: I have tried in vain for years to get this picture from him ... but for personal reasons he has always refused to part with it, and his change of decision therefore comes as a complete surprise. |
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| Particulars for Madame X: | |||
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| Art Attribute | American Art | ||
| Art Type | Painting | art of using colored substance to create a picture | |
| Fine Arts | Portrait | ||
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