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Description: | Gilded reeded, 127.2 x 84.0 x 7.0 None CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) The pose of this painting is believed to have been based on Velasquez's (1599-1660) "Pablo de Valladolid" in the Prado, Madrid. Whistler owned a photograph of this work. According to the Pennells, Whistler's biographers, Whistler originally depicted himself in a white jacket, but changed this to a black coat after his wife's death in 1896. He later scrubbed the picture down and never repainted it because he was not satisfied with it. Two preliminary sketches believed to be for this painting are also in the Hunterian collection (See GLAHA 46329/46373).
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SELF-PORTRAIT : DIEGO VELAZQUEZ : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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