Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Madame X

Portrait of Madame X edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 May 2013 at 02:18:41 (UTC)

Original – 1884 portrait of high-society Parisian woman, Madame Gautreau

Reason: High resolution Google Art Project scan of an extremely notable painting in John Singer Sargent's career, completed in 1884. The lady in question is Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau. According to the articles of this saucy lady, she wore powder of lavender, which I ascertain from third-party sites would make her smell as such, but I feel her skin tone has been given a slight lavender appearance as well (the entire painting uses light rose colors). The painting would become scandalous for Sargent; aside from its sexiness, the original version had one of her straps fallen to the side. Our article doesn't have an image of this, unfortunately, though I have seen it in a book. (Image.) The scandal and failure of this image forced Sargent to move to London and for Ms. Gautreau to retire from society for a short while. And my mom says, according to her readings, the two of them boinked. Unlike my Frederic Edwin Church Rainy Season in the Tropics crop where I removed all of the frame, parts of the frame here remain because I cropped to the edges of the actual painting. Feel free to compare original/crop and approve or disapprove.
Articles in which this image appears: Portrait of Madame X, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, List_of_works_by_John_Singer_Sargent#Parisian_Period
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: John Singer Sargent

Support as nominator --– Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 02:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:32, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 22:27, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great EV. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 09:42, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support One of my wife's favorite paintings by one of her favorite painters. Daniel Case (talk) 18:21, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), John Singer Sargent, 1884 (unfree frame crop).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:19, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]