num_pages: 320
description: Shares the story behind the creation of John Singer Sargent's famous painting, which propelled the artist into international renown but condemned his young subject, Virginie Gautreau of New Orleans, to a lifetime of public ridicule and self-loathing due to the work's perceived sexuality. 22,500 first printing.
language: English
title: Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
titlecomplete: Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
genres: 19th Century, Biography, France, History, Art History, Historical, Womens, Nonfiction, Art, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 5010
publisher: Tarcher