num_pages: 261
description: Follows the life of Virginie Gautreau, the subject of John Singer Sargent's famous and controversial portrait, from her Creole heritage and flight to France during the American Civil War, to her troubled adolescence and marriage to a prominent banker.
language: English
title: I Am Madame X
titlecomplete: I Am Madame X
genres: Classics, France, Historical, Novels, Art History, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Fiction, Art, Womens
ratings_count: 2989
places: New Orleans, Louisiana, Paris
publisher: Scribner