John Singer Sargent and Paris: The Path to Madame X

Join Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Stephanie Herdrich as she joins Carl for this in-depth look at how the career and personal life of Gilded Age artist John Singer Sargent evolved over his ten-plus-year period in Paris from the 1870s to the mid-1880s. Sargent is the subject of a major new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that focuses on this period beginning in his late adolescent years and leading up to the creation of perhaps his masterpiece — the grand, imposing, and scandalous portrait of Virginie Gautreau, known as “Madame X”. In this show, Stephanie discusses some of Sargent’s greatest works during this period as well as some of his most important professional and personal relationships, all of which contributed to the building of a great artist and a boundary-breaking artistic vision.