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The Story of Madame X
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925) • Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau) • 1883-84 • Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photograph of Sargent with what is perhaps his most famous portrait – that of the very wealthy socialite, Madame Gautreau. This is not the original version, though; the one that shocked the art world in 1884 when it was shown at the Paris Salon.
Above is a sketch for the Gautreau portrait. At some point Sargent decided to paint the right strap of her dress seductively off her shoulder. When the portrait was shown in Paris, there was an uproar of disapproval. Madame Gautreau was, apparently, already rumored to be an adultress. Her Singer portrait only added emphasis to the public's criticism of her character. According to the gallery card at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the painting was on loan from the MET), Gautreau very much liked the painting. What neither she nor Sargent predicted was that it would cause such a stir and be the cause of much conversation, mostly derisive, in the drawing rooms of Paris high society.
Sargent was so upset by the reaction at the Salon and the ensuing buzz that he took the painting back to his studio and repainted the strap in its proper place on the shoulder.
The painting was eventually sold on the condition that its subject not be revealed in the title. It was to be called Madame X.
Sources:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arty: Why Madame X Scandalized the Art World by Alina Cohen
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Robe à la Française • French • c. 1770 • Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rococo style embraced foreign styles with an inclusive, even rapacious eclecticism, but also with its own propensity to moderation and the small scale. During the period, Ikat, or warp-printed fabric, was modified to meet European taste. Saturated Eastern colors and bold geometrics became muted pastels in smaller floral and striped patterns characterizing many of the designs. – Metropolitan Museum of Art
Panniers or side hoops are women's undergarments worn in the 17th and 18th centuries to extend the width of the skirts at the side while leaving the front and back relatively flat. This provided a panel where woven patterns, elaborate decorations and rich embroidery could be displayed and fully appreciated. – Wikipedia
Jean Honoré Fragonard • The Swing • 1767 • The Wallace Collection, London
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Saint Sébastien et l'ange by Gustave moreau
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Der Kuß by Gustav Klimt (1908, Gemälde)
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Hi I am bad at getting commissions. None of my commission sheets ever seem to get me anything, so I keep lowering the prices.
People always are saying "What no don't price your art so low! It's worth more than that" BOY NOBODY IS BUYING IT! Aside from my friends. So here's my new, updated commission sheet. I made an entirely new one because I like making commission sheets. I'm going to tag all of the fandoms I'm active in and have done art for previously, and am willing to do MORE art for.
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the desperate man but make it caleb
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Young Woman With a Fan - Simon Moris
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Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) • The Balcony • 1868-69 • Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669) • The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp • 1632 • The Hague, Netherlands
Italian and Spanish Baroque art was largely religious and mythological. The northern Baroque painters of Holland and Germany, however, tended toward scenes of daily life and portraits. Their art was secular due to Prostistanism, which prohibited the veneration of religious images.
Rembrandt van Rijn was one of the most celebrated artists of the Dutch Baroque. His masterful treatment of light and shadow earned him great respect as a painter. He received many commissions from organizations who requested group portraits of its members. Rembrandt’s remarkable sense of composition allowed him to arrange multiple figures without compromising any subject's visibility.
The painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was commissioned by the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons. The archives preserved the names of every person in the painting, even that of the dead man depicted being dissected by Doctor Tulp. The man, Aris Kindt, was a criminal sentenced to death for armed robbery. It was common for authorities to relinquish the bodies of deceased criminals to medical students and it mostly took place in fall and winter to avoid rapid decay.
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A school project I did awhile back.
We all had to recreate a famous painting utilizing four different mediums, so I decided to recreate Girl With A Pearl Earring and split it into four quadrants in witch I used one medium on each. As you can tell, I sucked at all of them
Top left corner to bottom right (left right left right) Oil Pastels, Acrylic Paint, Color Pencil, and Marker
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