1864, James McNeill Whistler, Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: This scene overflows with works from Whistler's personal collection of Japanese and Chinese art, from porcelain and lacquer to the painted Japanese screen referenced in the work's title that, like the walls of the Peacock Room, shimmers with applied gold leaf. Whistler posed his model, Joanna Hiffernan (d. 1886), as an active viewer by having her hold a print from the series Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Her rapt attention transforms her into a proxy for both the viewer and the artist as discerning connoisseurs who were creating imagined views of East Asia through collected objects.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change.
Link to other Whistler paintings.
1864, James McNeill Whistler, Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: This scene overflows with works from Whistler's personal collection of Japanese and Chinese art, from porcelain and lacquer to the painted Japanese screen referenced in the work's title that, like the walls of the Peacock Room, shimmers with applied gold leaf. Whistler posed his model, Joanna Hiffernan (d. 1886), as an active viewer by having her hold a print from the series Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Her rapt attention transforms her into a proxy for both the viewer and the artist as discerning connoisseurs who were creating imagined views of East Asia through collected objects.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change.
Link to other Whistler paintings.