Another Sargent, John Singer
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Dr. Pozzi House and Madame X - the portraits of the same size, writing at one time, but not paired.
DR. Pozzi was made to order.
Madame X sat at the request of the artist.
Interesting that during the writing of these portraits, the models were secret lovers, but the artist did not know about.
Portrait of Madame X has caused great scandal, which fell strap of her dress has destroyed the reputation of the artist and he was forced to leave Paris forever (though back straps in place).
Dr. Pozzi - a famous gynecologist, Bon Vivant, charismatic, handsome, poet, collector, founder of the progressive school of gynecology, the author of many scientific works, as soon as he succeeded?
The operation of the poor in the city hospital, spent the evening at the opera.
The time of writing the portrait was the lover of Madame X, and Sarah Bernhardt.
Friends and lover stayed with him on friendly terms until his death. At the end of his life he had amputation legs Sarah Bernhardt. Depicted Proust In Search of Lost Time (was friends with his father and brother Marcel was a colleague, Dr. Robert Proust).
He was shot in smotorovoy his hospital at the age of 72 years. (According to rumors, the husband of one of his mistresses.)
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Robert Louis Stevenson (author of Treasure Island)
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El Jaleo
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