In Paris, after a few years of study with the leading portrait painter of the era, Carolus-Duran, and intermittent attendance at the École des Beaux-Arts, Sargent rapidly emerged as a sought-after, ...

“No one has more respect for the artistic value of a pretty girl than I, but in this girl-made era we are forgetting the fact that artistically and historically, the male of the species is of ...

revealing a portrait of a male figure—perhaps even a self-portrait. Because it lies beneath one of Cézanne’s few dated still lifes—made when the artist was in his mid-twenties and working ...