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

310 pages paperback 2003

6 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 p...

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