description: The woman in the title is Virginie Gatreau, the alluring real-life subject of John Singer Sargent's scandalous 1884 painting Portrait of Madame X. In her first novel, biographer Gioia Diliberto presents the Louisiana-born beauty in all her sensuality and aloofness. Sargent's bare-shouldered siren is transformed into a flesh-and-blood woman whose life shredded up by gossip and innuendo; a woman who is victimized by the very painting that immortalizes her. A stunning historical novel about a willful icon.
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: Blackstone Audiobooks