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

 

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

Last updated: 8th June 2021 by Margaret