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The finished portrait, which was exhibited as 'Madame X', belongs to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Tate Gallery's version is a full-size sketch. The sitter was the American wife of a French banker in Paris. Sargent knew her and asked her to sit for him, and deliberately planned a sensational portrait with an unconventional pose. Her head is turned into sharp profile emphasising her nose, her right arm is twisted and her shoulders exposed. The adverse criticism of the finished portrait at the Paris Salon of 1884 so damaged Sargent's reputation that the following year he moved to live permanently in Britain. His later portraits were never so adventurous.

Tate Britain

London

Title

Study of Mme Gautreau

Date

c.1884

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 206.4 x W 107.9 cm

Accession number

N04102

Acquisition method

Presented by Lord Duveen through the Art Fund 1925

Work type

Painting

Tate Britain

Millbank, London, Greater London SW1P 4RG England

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Artist or maker

John Singer Sargent

1856–1925

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