This exhibit features about 25 paintings of American women, including two preparatory sketches for Sargent's infamous Portrait of Madame X.
James particularly admires Sargent's portraits of women, such as Miss Burckhardt (not identified by name but illustrated in the magazine text of the article) and Madame X (called Madame G in the essay).
In John Singer Sargent’s famous Portrait of Madame X, for example, the lumps only appear on the blackest areas, which may be because of the artist’s use of more medium in those areas to compensate for the tendency of black pigments to soak it up.
National Portrait Gallery | National Portrait Gallery (London) | National Portrait Gallery (United States) | National Portrait Gallery, London | portrait | Madame Bovary | Madame Aema | Madame de Pompadour | Madame Tussauds | Portrait miniature | National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom) | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Madame Defarge | La fille de Madame Angot | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | Portrait Records | Portrait of Madame X | Portrait | La Souriante Madame Beudet | Portrait of Clare | portrait miniature | Madame | Doug Moran National Portrait Prize | donor portrait | Arnolfini Portrait | self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet | Royal Society of Portrait Painters | Portrait of Tracy | Portrait of the Vendramin Family | Portrait of Pope Pius VII |