Sargent's Madame X
1884 · Work
John Singer Sargent's daring society portrait that nearly ended his career in Paris.
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More from France
- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)
Around 1884
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Pablo Picasso (1881)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)