John Singer Sargent is certainly one of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Revered in the United States, he is also famous in the United Kingdom, where he spent much of his career. In France, however, his name is less well known to the general public. A strange coincidence, considering that it was in Paris that Sargent received his training, developed his style and achieved his first successes in creating some of his greatest masterpieces. Co-designed with the Metropolitan in New York, this exhibition brings together over 90 of his works, retracing the period of his life that saw him arrive in Paris at the age of eighteen in 1874. During that extraordinary decade, Sargent forged his style and his personality in the crucible of the art scene of the Ville Lumière.
