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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.
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).
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 ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:53, 28 February 2009: 372 × 713 (76 KB): Aiko {{Information |Description={{en|1=*Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) *Oil on canvas; 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (208.6 x 109.9 cm) }} |Source=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |Author=John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) |Date=1883–84 |Permission= |other_version
The plantation was named for Charles Parlange, a Frenchman. The home was originally owned by Marquis Vincent de Ternant. Parlange was the childhood home of Virginie Amelie Gautreau (née Avegno), descendant of the Marquis and the infamous Madam X of the John Singer Sargent portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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)
When Claude de Ternant died, his second wife Virginie remarried. (By her first husband, Virginie was the maternal grandmother of Parisian socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, who was the subject of John Singer Sargent's portrait "Madame X".) Virginie's second husband, another Frenchman, was Colonel Charles Parlange, from whom the ...