[HIGHLIGHTS] Madame X: the lady who was defenestrated by society and abandoned by her husband for her too sensual portrait

Until July 7, the Tate Britain offers an original exhibition called Sargent and Fashion. The protagonist in question was Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, a wealthy white Creole from New Orleans.

For the puritanical French society, being unfaithful was not frowned upon -Virginie was famous for her beauty but also for her infidelities. The criticism at the Paris Salon of 1884 was also destructive for the painter. The scandal was so notorious that the artist left for London.