Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau
American
Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau was a Creole New Orleans heiress who became a Parisian socialite. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Anatole Placide Avegno
Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau was a Creole New Orleans heiress who became a Parisian socialite. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1859/01/29 | Virginie Amelie Avegno is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Anatole Placide Avegno and Marie Virginie de Ternant of Parlange Plantation, a descendant of French nobility. | Born | Parlange Plantation House | Mix | |||
| 1867/00/00 | Virginia and her widowed mother move to France, where she is educated in Paris and introduced to high French society. | Life | |||||
| 1884/00/00 | "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. | Subject | Madame X | Salon of 1884 | |||
| 1915/07/25 | Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau dies in Cannes. She was buried in the Gautreau family crypt at their Chateau des Chenes in Saint-Malo, Brittany. | Died | Madame X | Saint-Malo, FR | Brittany |
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