Arrangement in Black: Portrait of F. R. Leyland
1870-1873
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 218.5 × 119.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-127057
Whistler derived the somber palette and tall, narrow format of this painting of his first important patron from portraits by the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez (1599¬–1660). Whistler was eager both to please Leyland and to fulfill his own artistic ambition with this portrait, the first in a series of Arrangements in Black. Leyland described the protracted process of posing as “my own marty…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1870-1873 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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