James McNeill Whistler, Portrait of Whistler with a Hat
Gift of Charles Lang Freer · National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
James McNeill Whistler

Portrait of Whistler with a Hat

1857-1859

Current Collection

National Museum of Asian Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46.3 × 38.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-127682

As is frequently the case when a young artist creates a self-portrait, Whistler identified himself with a past master. Theodore Duret reported that Whistler was particularly struck by Rembrandt's Portrait of a Man in a Beret in the Louvre. Whistler adopted Rembrandt's general format as well as his rich, dark palette. The artist Kenyon Cox detected the impact of Courbet's realism in Whistler's use…

Provenance

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Registry history

  • 1857-1859 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art

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