Strapless : John Singer Sargent and the fall of Madame X : Davis, Deborah, 1952- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293) and index

La Louisiane -- City of light -- A professional beauty -- The pupil -- A smashing start -- Brilliant creatures -- Heat and light -- His masterpiece -- The Flying Dutchman -- Finishing touches -- Dancing on a volcano -- Le scandale -- Calculated moves -- A woman of a certain age -- A man of prodigious talent -- Twilight of the gods

Explores the story behind John Singer Sargent's "Madame X," a painting of twenty-three-year-old Amelie Gautreau which unleashed a storm of controversey when it was unveiled at the Paris Salon to show the young wife with one strap of her gown falling off her shoulder, and provides insights into the lives of the artist and his subject