Sargent Dazzling Paris

John Singer Sargent (Florence, 1856 - London, 1925), along with James McNeill Whistler, was the most famous American artist of his generation and certainly one of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th century. Revered in the United States (his Portrait of Madame X is regarded as the Mona Lisa of the American art collection conserved by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), he is also famous in the United Kingdom, where he spent most of his career. In France, however, his name and work remain largely unknown, a situation that the exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in fall 2025 hopes to change.

Curatorship

Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Curator of Graphic Arts and Paintings, Musée d'Orsay

Paul Perrin, Director of Collections and Curation, Musée d'Orsay

in collaboration with Stephanie Herdrich, Alice Pratt Brown, Curator of American Paintings and Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art