Portrait of Whistler

1865

Current Collection

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on aluminum panel
Dimensions: 46.8 × 36.6 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-127308

Whistler’s good friend Henri Fantin-Latour originally included this portrait as part of a large composition called Le toast: Hommage à la Verit&‌eacute; (The Toast: Homage to Truth) that also depicted such avant-garde figures as the painter Edouard Manet and the poet Charles Baudelaire. The Frenchmen wore conventional black suits in the group portrait. Whistler, however, insisted on distinguishin…

Provenance

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Registry history

1865 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art

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