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Antonio de La Gándara, Madame Pierre Gautreau, 1898. Virginie Avegno became one of Paris's conspicuous beauties, as she was a pale-skinned brunette with fine, cameo-like features and an hourglass figure. She was known to use lavender-colored face and body powder to enhance her complexion, to dye her hair with henna, and to color her eyebrows ...
Madame X or Portrait of Madame X is a portrait painting by John Singer Sargent of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. [1] It is a study in opposition.
Marie Virginie de Ternant, née Trahan (August 16, 1818 – November 7, 1887), was the owner and manager of the Parlange Plantation, near New Roads, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. It was through her strong personality, diplomacy and charm that she saved the house from destruction throughout its occupation by both the Union and Confederate ...
The lady in question is Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau. According to the articles of this saucy lady, she wore powder of lavender, which I ascertain from third-party sites would make her smell as such, but I feel her skin tone has been given a slight lavender appearance as well (the entire painting uses light rose colors).
25 July – Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, socialite, model for Portrait of Madame X (born 1859) 31 August – Adolphe Pégoud, French acrobatic pilot, World War I fighter ace (killed in action) (born 1889) 15 September – Alfred Agache, painter (born 1843)
Died: Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, 56, French socialite, famously modeled for the painting Portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent (b. 1859 ) [ citation needed ] July 26 , 1915 (Monday)
3 File:John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London) - Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) - Google Art Project.jpg to appear as POTD
Madame X, a character played by Anne Brochet in The Story of Marie and Julien; Madame X (device), a bombe cryptanalyser used by the US Army during World War II Madame Xanadu, a 2012 comic called "Madame X" which featured this character under DC's "National Comics" imprint