Strapless (33 page)

Robinson, Charles “Chuck,” 261

Robinson, Edward

Rockefeller, John D.

Rosenblum, Robert

Rosicrucians

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Royal Academy of Art (London)

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
at

portrait of Pozzi at

 

Sacred Grove, The
(Puvis de Chavannes)

Sain, Édouard

St. Botolph Club (Boston)

St. Charles Hotel (New Orleans)

St.-Énogat (France)

St. Louis Hotel (New Orleans)

St.-Malo (France)

Salon (Paris)

and photography

and portraits

Sargent’s entries

Portrait de Mme * * *
(
Madame X
)

Salon de la Rose-Croix

Sargent, Emily (sister of John Singer)

Sargent, Fitzwilliam (father of John Singer)

death

and son’s art

Sargent, Fitzwilliam, Jr. (brother of John Singer)

Sargent, John Singer

as art student

biography of

career

in America

international success

Madame X
and

post-
Madame X

success

death and memorials

exhibitions

first one-man show

of
Madame X

See also
Salon

generosity

London trips

and Louise Burckhardt

and
Madame X

move to London

as musician

painting technique

paintings

Paris studio

personality

portrait of Amélie Gautreau

Salon exhibition

sketches for

as portraitist

and Pozzi

Sargent, John Singer (
cont.
)

as prospective son-in-law

relationships with men

Belleroche

Henry James

Pozzi

relationships with women

Louise Burckhardt

Gautier

reputation after death

romance and

Salon entries

sexuality

social life

in America

in England

and World War I

See also
Paintings by Sargent

Sargent, Mary Singer (mother of John Singer)

trips to America

Sargent, Mary Winthrop (sister of John Singer)

Sargent, Violet (sister of John Singer)

Sargent family.
See also individual Sargent entries

Sears, Willard T.

Seurat, Georges

Shopping, Paris

Silhouette, Étienne de

Silhouette portraits

Simmons, Edward

Singer, Mary Newbold.
See also
Sargent, Mary Singer

Sisley, Alfred

Sitwell, Osbert

Skin-lightening procedures

Slave Market in Rome
(Gérôme)

Social commentary,
Madame X
as

Society, Paris, 1870s-1880s

Madame X
as symbol of

Soluri, Patrick

Spalding & Rogers Circus

Spitzer, Frederic

Staffe, Baroness

Subercaseaux, Ramón

Submission Day, Paris Salon

 

Tate Gallery (London)

Tea gown

Technique, painting, Sargent’s

Ternant, Claude Vincent

Ternant, Julie Euriphile

Ternant, Marie Virginie.
See also
Avegno, Marie Virginie Ternant

Ternant, Marius Claude Vincent

Ternant, Virginie Trahan.
See also
Parlange, Virginie Trahan Ternant; Trahan, Virginie

Thiers, Adolphe

Third Republic

socioeconomic conditions

Thirteenth Louisiana Infantry

Three Profiles of Madame Gautreau
(Sargent)

Tissot, James Jacques Joseph

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

Trahan, Joseph Leufroy

Trahan, Virginie.
See also
Parlange, Virginie Trahan Ternant; Ternant, Virginie Trahan

Travel, Sargent and

Traveling Musicians
(Meissonier)

Treatise on Gynaecology, Clinical and Operative
(Pozzi)

Triumph of Religion, The
(Sargent)

Trochu, Louis

Troppmann, Jean-Baptiste

 

United States

Civil War

and French art

Sargent family trip to

Uzanne, Octave

 

van Gogh, Vincent

Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Henry

Varnishing Day, Paris Salon
n
163

Madame X
exhibition

Vathek
(Beckford)

Velázquez, Diego

Don Antonio el Inglés
(Sargent copy)

“Venus” (Montesquiou)

Verlaine, Paul

Vickers, Thomas

daughters of

portrait

Visseaux, Julie

 

Wagner, Christine Planer

Wagner, Cosima

Wagner, Richard

Judith Gautier and

Warhol, Andy

Washington Square Arch

Watts, Frances

Wax museum, Paris

Wedding, Avegno-Gautreau

Wedgwood, Eliza

Wertheimer, Asher

Wertheimer, Betty and Ena

Westminster Abbey, memorial service for Sargent

Whispers
(Sargent)

Whistler, James

White, Margaret (Mrs. Henry)

White, Stanford

Wilde, Oscar

Wilhelm II (Kaiser)

Wilmurt, Thomas A.

Wilson, Woodrow

Wolff, Albert

Woman with the Glove, The
(Carolus-Duran)

Women

as art students

French

health concerns

nude, in paintings

Sargent and

World War I, Sargent and

Worth, Charles

 

Yamamoto ( Japanese artist)

Youth of Bacchus, The
(Bouguereau)

 

Zillhardt, Madeleine

Zola, Émile

Three people are responsible for this book: Mark Urman, my beloved husband, muse, collaborator, and champion; my wonderful mother, Jean Gatto, who gave me my first book and has always believed that I could do anything; and Wendy Silbert, my dear friend and agent, whose boundless enthusiasm and support turned a dream into a reality. I am also deeply indebted to the incomparable Scott Waxman and to Alexandra Tallen, my remarkable researcher and translator.

When I started my research, I was afraid the art world would be closed to me as an outsider. The opposite was true. The people at Adelson Galleries in New York, otherwise known as “Sargent Central,” were especially warm and welcoming. My sincere thanks to the delightful Elizabeth Oustinoff for her knowledge and good humor, and to Warren Adelson for his extraordinary wisdom and generosity. I also thank Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, authors of John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, the first volume of the Sargent catalogue raisonné, for providing an invaluable resource and wonderfully entertaining reading.

I am grateful to Carol Vance Wall for her inspirational thoughts about Lily Millet; Marie-Christine Ruellan for acting as my guide in Brittany; Brian J. Costello and Robert de Berardinis for their study of and astute observations on Amélie Gautreau’s New Orleans years; and Kay Rapier (daughter of Mettha Westfeldt Eshleman) for her interest and support.

Thanks as well to Mark Cave at the Williams Research Center of the Historic New Orleans Collection, Linda Hollander, George Jordan, Tom and Ellie Avegno, Stephanie Herdrich, Dr. Valerie Steele at the Museum at FIT, Mario Pereira at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Carolyn Peter at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Olga Ferguson at the Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Manonmani Filliozat at the Archives Municipales de Saint-Malo, Jean-Pierre Blin at the Conservatoire Municipal Agréé de Musique / Château des Chênes, Julie Zeftel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Blair Bunting Darnell, Dana Hart-nett, Angèle Parlange, Lucy and Walter Parlange, Charles “Chuck” Robinson, Stephan Houy-Towner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Library, Lydia Dufour at the Frick Collection, and the staffs of the New York Public Library and the Montclair Art Museum Library.

At Tarcher, my deepest appreciation to Wendy Hubbert, Ashley Shelby, and Meredith Phebus.

Finally, I acknowledge my grandmother Anna Cianci. She did not live to see
Strapless,
but her lovely spirit encourages me every day.

Photograph of Avegno sisters: Eshleman Collection, 2001-52-L, The Mettha Westfeldt Eshleman Bequest, The Williams Research Center of the Historic New Orleans Collection.

 

Dr. Pozzi at Home:
Oil on canvas, 79⅜ x 40¼ inches. The Armand Hammer Collection, Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

 

Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast:
(P3w41). © Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

Madame Gautreau (Madame X):
Watercolor. Courtesy Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop. Photograph by David Mathews. Image copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

 

Photograph of
Madame Gautreau:
Scrapbook of photographic reproductions of paintings by John Singer Sargent, p. 49:
Madame X,
albumen print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Thomas J. Watson Library, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (192 SA 7 Sa 78 Q). All rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau):
Oil on canvas, 82⅛ x 43¼ inches (208.6 x 109.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916. (16.53). Photograph © 1997 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

A Gust of Wind:
Photograph courtesy Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York.

 

Courtois,
Madame Gautreau:
Oil on canvas. Photograph by B. Hatala. © Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

Deborah Davis is a writer and veteran film executive who has worked as a story editor and story analyst for companies including Warner Bros., Columbia TriStar, Disney, Miramax, and the William Morris Agency. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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