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Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau) is completed

1884 CE · North America · Culture

Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau) is completed
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Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is an 1884 portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. It is a study in opposition.

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