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100 1 $aDavis, Deborah,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003009507
245 10 $aStrapless :$bJohn Singer Sargent and the fall of Madame X /$cDeborah Davis.
260 $aNew York :$bJeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $a310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-293) and index.
520 1 $a"Parisian gossip columns were bursting with news of twenty-three-year-old Virginie Amelie Gautreau, whose stunning looks and unconventional behavior had made her the city's hottest "it girl." The fame-hungry Gautreau soon met John Singer Sargent, an up-and-coming artist eager to collaborate on a portrait that would catapult them both to the pinnacle of society." "Sargent's painting of Gautreau was shown at the 1884 Paris Salon. But while Sargent, the American son of vagabond parents, rose to lasting stardom, Gautreau - cultivated since childhood to be admired and envied - was ridiculed, then utterly forgotten." "How did their destinies come to be so sharply overturned? The answer, Deborah Davis reveals in Strapless, lies in Sargent's portrait. Madame X, as it hangs today in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicts Gautreau in a black gown with two jeweled shoulder straps. But in the original painting, one strap fell from Gautreau's upper arm in an intimation of sex - igniting a critical frenzy that shattered Gautreau's reputation and sent Sargent in flight to England." "Drawing on previously unexamined family papers and documents discovered in libraries and private collections, Davis explores the tantalizing mysteries at the heart of Madame X. Why did Sargent paint his subject in such a deliberately provocative manner, and why did Gautreau acquiesce? Could they have anticipated that a fallen strap would shock even decadent Belle Epoque Paris, and agreed that celebrity would be worth the scandal? If so, what later moved Sargent to repaint Gautreau's strap to sit chastely on her shoulder?" "With its revelations about Gautreau's identity and an eyebrow raising cast of characters including Richard Wagner, Henry James, Sarah Bernhardt, and Dr. Samuel Pozzi, Gautreau's notorious gynecologist/lover, this enthralling account exposes the Dorian Gray-like tale of beauty and infatuation, obsession and betrayal, that lies behind Sargent and Gautreau's masterpiece."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aSargent, John Singer,$d1856-1925.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50019335
650 0 $aPainters$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108757
600 10 $aSargent, John Singer,$d1856-1925.$tMadame X.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003009432
600 10 $aGautreau, Virginie Avegno,$d1859-1915.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002036103
650 0 $aArtists' models$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aAmericans$zFrance$zParis$xHistory$y19th century.
700 1 $aSargent, John Singer,$d1856-1925.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50019335
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