fckyeaharthistory:

John Singer Sargent - Madame Pierre Gautreau (Madame X), 1884. Oil on canvas

Caused quite a scandal when it debuted, was reviled and then eventually taken back into the public’s good graces like 50 years after everyone involved was dead. 

Bien qu’on ait du coeur à l’ouvrage,
L’Art est long et le Temps est court.

[Although one’s heart is in the work,
Art is long and time is short.]

-Baudelaire, Le Guignon (Bad Luck), my trans.