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Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau), 1883–84. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 82 1/8 × 43 1/4 in. (208.6 × 109.9 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London)
- Date
- 1883–84
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 82 1/8 × 43 1/4 in. (208.6 × 109.9 cm) Framed: 95 3/4 × 56 5/8 × 5 in. (243.2 × 143.8 × 12.7 cm)
- Credit line
- Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1856–1925
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.