From April 21 to August 3, 2025, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork presents “Sargent and Paris”, an exhibition of works by John Singer Sargent from his transformative decade in Paris
Supply: Metropolitan Museum of Artwork · Picture: John Singer Sargent, “Madame X” (element)
Coinciding with the one hundredth anniversary of the artist’s loss of life, “Sargent and Paris” contains roughly 100 artworks, from preparatory sketches to daring masterpieces, culminating within the iconic “Madame X”. The exhibition explores the early profession of John Singer Sargent (born 1856, Florence; died 1925, London), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a gifted 18-year-old artwork pupil via the mid-Eighties, when his notorious portrait “Madame X” was a scandalous success on the Paris Salon. That includes a considerable assortment of work, watercolors, and drawings, the exhibition will even embrace a choose group of portraits by Sargent’s contemporaries. The exhibition is the most important worldwide exhibition of Sargent’s work since 1998 and the primary ever monographic exhibition of Sargent’s artwork in France.
“This magnificent exhibition will shed new gentle on a transformative interval within the life and profession of one in all America’s most essential painters,” stated Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Government Officer. “By situating Sargent’s work inside the context of the town that fashioned and impressed him, Sargent and Paris will illuminate this influential artist’s meteoric rise, offering new insights into his distinctive expertise and talent in capturing the colourful society he inhabited.”
Stephanie L. Herdrich, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Portray and Drawings at The Met, stated: “Sargent’s profession was indelibly formed by the point he spent in Paris. Over the course of 1 exceptional decade, he created the boldest and most daring work of his oeuvre. Sargent and Paris will showcase these visually gorgeous and bold works, shedding new gentle on his distinctive inventive imaginative and prescient. We’re thrilled to companion with the Musée d’Orsay to reunite this assortment of nice works in New York and Paris.”
