1884, John Singer Sargent, Louis de Fourcaud -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Louis de Fourcaud (1851-1914) was an art historian and musicologist who contributed to a variety of French publications. For most of his career, he was the art and music critic for the French daily newspaper Le Gaulois. As early as 1878, Fourcaud wrote admiringly about Sargent's talent. His astute criticism of Sargent's paintings in well-respected French journals brought important attention to Sargent's art. While it is not known how the two met, they bonded over their shared enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner. Sargent inscribed this portrait to Fourcaud (in French, across the top of the canvas) as a "testimony of friendship" in 1884, the same year that Fourcaud wrote perceptively about Sargent's controversial submission to the Salon, Madame X.
1884, John Singer Sargent, Louis de Fourcaud -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Louis de Fourcaud (1851-1914) was an art historian and musicologist who contributed to a variety of French publications. For most of his career, he was the art and music critic for the French daily newspaper Le Gaulois. As early as 1878, Fourcaud wrote admiringly about Sargent's talent. His astute criticism of Sargent's paintings in well-respected French journals brought important attention to Sargent's art. While it is not known how the two met, they bonded over their shared enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner. Sargent inscribed this portrait to Fourcaud (in French, across the top of the canvas) as a "testimony of friendship" in 1884, the same year that Fourcaud wrote perceptively about Sargent's controversial submission to the Salon, Madame X.