Sargent Dazzling Paris

September 23, 2025 January 11, 2026

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 ...
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John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris - Exhibition catalog

MX043515

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WRITTEN IN FRENCH

Born in Italy to american parents, the painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) spent most of his career in London and most of his life traveling. Paris will be much more than just a stopover for him. When he moved there in 1874, the capital was bustling and the brilliant young artist found his way there. Trained in the workshops of Carolus-Duran and Léon Bonnat, Sargent seduced of all Paris. Through the virtuosity of his touch, the strength of his portraits and the elegance of his gaze, he imposes his singular style. The French community artistic saluted this extraordinary talent, which sometimes shocked, before recognition gradually gave way to a certain mistrust... and to oblivion in the 20th century.
One hundred years after his death, this exceptional retrospective, bringing together nearly 130 major works, shines a new light on Sargent's parisian period - undoubtedly the most decisive and vibrant of his career.

Exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay from 23 September 2025 to 11 January 2026.

French
256 pages / 130 illustrations

Co-publishing Gallimard/Musée d'Orsay

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