Description:
College-ruled composition notebook (160 pages), with a cover showing an "Portrait of Madame X" by John Singer Sargent. The subject of the painting, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, was an American expatriate who married a French banker, and became notorious in Parisian high society for her beauty and rumoured infidelities.
Brief description: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.