Philip Hooper of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler chooses a beguiling portrait: Madame X.
Philip Hooper on Madame X by John Singer Sargent
‘Madame X had me frozen to the spot when I saw her first at The Met. I was unprepared for the scale, the luminosity and the strength of the composition — she hangs alone on the museum walls in a heavy gold frame evoking the excesses of fin-de-siècle Paris, a hint of henna in the hair glowing against her chalky skin and a haughty…
