Portrait of Whistler
date: label: Date
content: 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
notes: label: Label
content: 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 distinguishing himself by wearing a colorful Chinese robe. Fantin’s group portrait and Whistler’s painting The Princess from the Land of Porcelain were exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1865. Critics ridiculed Fantin’s work, and he later destroyed it, leaving only this fragment of Whistler.
label: Provenance
content: To 1906
label: Provenance
content: Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York, NY, to 1906 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1906 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Samuel Putnam Avery in 1906 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Reserved List of Whistleriana, Wh. R. 1, L. 5807, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's "Filthy Lucre" (May 16, 2015 to June 4, 2017)
label: Exhibition History
content: Freer & Whistler: Points of Contact (February 23, 2008 to January 3, 2016)
label: Exhibition History
content: Picturing Whistler: Portraits and Self-Portraits (May 21 to December 3, 2000)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler & Japan (May 14, 1995 to January 1, 1996)
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings: James McNeill Whistler (January 17, 1985 to (end date unknown))
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings (September 10, 1981 to March 12, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings (May 31, 1979 to June 17, 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings (October 14, 1978 to March 18, 1981)
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings (September 8, 1961 to May 2, 1973)
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings (June 9, 1960 to September 8, 1961)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Scott & Fowles, 1951 (1951)
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings, Miscellaneous (May 2, 1923 to March 23, 1925)
label: Exhibition History
content: Portraits of Whistler and other Whistleriana (1918)
label: Exhibition History
content: James McNeill Whistler (April 09, 1915 to April 27, 1915)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Salon, 1865 (1865)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: France
topic: label: Topic
content: portrait
label: Topic
content: artist
label: Topic
content: France
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1906.276a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil on canvas mounted on aluminum panel
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 46.8 x 36.6 cm (18 7/16 x 14 7/16 in)