Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau was an American-born Parisian socialite, who gained notoriety as the subject of John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Madame X.
Avegno, ca. 1878
John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1884, oil on canvas, 234.95 x 109.86 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Portrait of Madame X
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Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is an 1884 portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was pain
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau
…née Avegno; 29 January 1859 – 25 July 1915) was an American-born Parisian socialite, who gained notoriety as the subject of John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Madame X. Gautreau was born Virginie Amélie of French Creole ancestry, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 29 January 1859. Her parents were Anatole Placide Avegno…
A figure study by Sargent in watercolor and graphite, c. 1883
Unfinished study in Tate Gallery
On display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art