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Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is the informal title of a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite named Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau wife of Pierre Gautreau. The model was an American expatriate who married a French banker and became notorious in Parisian high society for her beauty and rumored infidelities. She wore lavender powder and prided herself on her appearance.Madame X was painted not as a commission but at the request of Sargent.

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author
John Singer Sargent
museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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