Perry Brass: The Manly Pursuit of Desire: John Singer Sargent, Portraits of Artists and Friends, at the Met

"Douard and Marie-Louise Pailleron," courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum The Metropolitan Museum has been hosting one of the great Sargent shows this fall; it will close on October 4, and believe me if you haven't run over to see it, do. This is a show of Sargent's "intimate" portraits, often ones that he did for himself, although some of the paintings featured here are big-ticket, public event ones whose allure cannot be questioned. They include "Madame X" (Madame Pierre Gautreau) possibly one ...