Thank you courget2te for this website, I excerpted the comments about the famous Sargent Painting. I had Nicole in another site, and a viewer remarked, It reminded him of John Singer Sargent. I thought it just reminded. But now I see it was more than that. the story is fascinting, that her pale skin and the strap off the shoulder was scandalous. He repainted it with the strap up. I suggest to the readers that they cut and paste the Url provided by courget2te...and see drawings of how he put it together, and other ideas he had. And another way, it was painted. thank you again, dear member, You have enlightened all that look at this photograph of Nicole Kidman this was a series...now wouldnt it be something if we found the other portraits these other ones were influenced by? The gowns and the grapes etc. I absolutely adore this series for a magazine.

said sugarbarre 2008.07.20 at 04:56:51 PDT

When Madame X was shown at the Salon of 1884 it became a scandal in French society as a result of its sexual suggestiveness of her pose and the pail pasty color of her skin. The "X" of Madame X was Madame Gautreau,who’s reputation was apparently destroyed and John left France never to regain his standing as the darling of Paris. The size of the painting is enormous, nearly seven feet tall.If the painting was so damning to her reputation, why hadn't Madame Gautreau or family destroyed it; She must have secretly loved it; NO, The uproar over the painting, made her hate it.Dressed in advance of her epoch.The doors of the Salon were hardly open before the picture was damned. The Salon was in an uproar. The onslaught was led the lady's relatives. A demand was made that the picture should be withdrawn. wait till the Salon was closed,and then by destroying, blot it as an unclean thing from the records of the family. Anticipating this, Sargent, before the exhibition was over, took it away. After remaining many years in his studio. It now figures as one of the glories of the Metropolitan Museum in New York." "Sargent, who was twenty-eight, had been working for ten years in Paris. The Salon of 1884 was to have been a culmination of his efforts. He had painted what is now recognized as a masterpiece, displaying excellence which he was perhaps never to surpass.The curious’ beauty of that peacock-woman, Mme. Gautreau.” By 1906 Madame Gautreau had changed her opinion of the painting.The Kaiser thought her portrait the most fascinating woman's likeness that he has ever seen,wishes me to have an exhibition in Berlin. The thought that such a painting would even be considered a scandal, was over,but John had moved on to America.The painting was being exhibited at the Worlds Fair in San Francisco, he wrote the director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. * He sold to them for 1,000 franqs.* The original has her right strap off her shoulder. Sargent made the adjustment.

said sugarbarre 2008.07.20 at 04:51:42 PDT