Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

Deborah Davis

262 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history informative lighthearted fast-paced
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The subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau, who moved to Paris and quickly became the "it girl" of her day. A relative unknown at the time, Sargent won the commission to...

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