Sargent and ParisA fascinating look at John Singer Sargent's formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth century art world In 1874, eighteen year old American artist John Singer Sargent went to Paris to become a painter. A mere ten years later, he would be an art world sensation, sparking controversy with his scandalous portrait Madame X at the 1884 Salon. Sargent