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Portrait of a man in red

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"To which genre should 'Portrait of a Man in Red' be classified—historical, biographical, or philosophical?" asked the Independent newspaper; and it itself answered: "All three!
Here we have the perfect guide to a remarkable era."

So, meet Samuel Pozzi—a fashionable Parisian doctor of the late 19th century, the father of modern gynecology, and a legendary womanizer—in short, the "man in red" depicted in Sargent's famous portrait, "Dr. Pozzi at Home." Through the lens of the doctor's journey to Foggy Albion, equipped with a letter of introduction from Sargent to Henry James, Barnes examines the Belle Époque in all its diversity, and the reader cannot help but draw unsettling parallels with today. Moreover, the doctor is not traveling alone: he is accompanied by the refined aristocrats Prince de Polignac and Count Robert de Montesquiou, the prototype of Baron de Charlus from Proust’s epic “In Search of Lost Time.”
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