Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871
Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Accession Number: RF 699
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 144.3 x 162.5 cm (56 3/4 x 64")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau Whistler, 1891
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Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, Musée d'Orsay
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, Musée d'Orsay
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, Musée d'Orsay
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, Musée d'Orsay
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, verso of frame, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, verso of frame, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph, 1872, New York Public Library
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph, 1872, New York Public Library
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph, ca 1878, GUL Whistler PH4/13
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph, ca 1878, GUL Whistler PH4/13
Albumen print, ca 1878, signed 'Whistler', inscribed: 'To his Cousin Jacks MacNeill', GUL Whistler PH4/122
Albumen print, ca 1878, signed 'Whistler', inscribed: 'To his Cousin Jacks MacNeill', GUL Whistler PH4/122
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, half-tone photograph, n.d., GUL Whistler PH4/113
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, half-tone photograph, n.d., GUL Whistler PH4/113
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph, Goupil Album, 1892, GUL, MS Whistler PH5/2
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph, Goupil Album, 1892, GUL, MS Whistler PH5/2
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph in raking light from below, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, photograph in raking light from below, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, infra-red photograph, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, infra-red photograph, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, ultraviolet photograph, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, ultraviolet photograph, 1973
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, diagram of changes
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, diagram of changes
Anna M. Whistler, photograph, GUL Whistler PH1/54
Anna M. Whistler, photograph, GUL Whistler PH1/54
Anna M. Whistler, silver-gelatin print, GUL Whistler PH1/55
Anna M. Whistler, silver-gelatin print, GUL Whistler PH1/55
Anna M. Whistler, albumen print, GUL Whistler PH1/56
Anna M. Whistler, albumen print, GUL Whistler PH1/56
Anna M. Whistler, photograph, GUL Whistler PH1/247
Anna M. Whistler, photograph, GUL Whistler PH1/247
La Salon pour rire, 21 May 1883, GUL Whistler PC7, p. 5
La Salon pour rire, 21 May 1883, GUL Whistler PC7, p. 5
L'Univers Illustré, [May 1883], GUL Whistler PC7, p. 4
L'Univers Illustré, [May 1883], GUL Whistler PC7, p. 4
La Caricature, 19 May 1883, GUL Whistler PC7, p. 4
La Caricature, 19 May 1883, GUL Whistler PC7, p. 4
Henri Guérard, 'Portrait de ma mère', etching, Gazette des beaux-arts, 1883
Henri Guérard, 'Portrait de ma mère', etching, Gazette des beaux-arts, 1883
A Bat, Montesquiou, R. de, Les chauves-souris: clair-obscurs, 1893
A Bat, Montesquiou, R. de, Les chauves-souris: clair-obscurs, 1893

It was photographed in 1872 by Alfred William Parsons (1847-1920). 1

Notes:

1: Whistler to C. W. Deschamps, [11/13 December 1872], [20 December 1872], and [December 1872], GUW #07906, #11438, and #07905; H. Gee to C. W. Deschamps, 3 September 1873, GUW #11974. A photograph sent to S. P. Avery, signed by Whistler and dated '72', and signed by the sitter on 22 June 1873, is in New York Public Library.

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