Sargent and Paris

by Stephanie L. Herdrich

A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent's formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art world

In 1874, eighteen-year-old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a painter. A mere ten years later, he would be an art-world sensation, sparking controversy with his scandalous portrait Madame X at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588397955
• ISBN13: 9781588397959
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
• Length: 232 Pages