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| Keywords: Symphony in flesh color and pink by JM Whistler, 1871-74.jpg Artwork 1871 - 1874 oil on canvas cm 195 9 102 24 Institution The Frick Collection New York New York USA accession number object history credit line Commentary Frances Dawson 1834 “1910 married in 1855 Frederick R Leyland a major Liverpool shipowner telephone magnate and art collector who was one of Whistler ™s chief patrons before the two quarreled bitterly over the decoration of the famous Peacock Room once the dining room of the Leylands ™ London townhouse and now in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington Commissioned in the fall of 1871 this portrait was exhibited at Whistler ™s first one-man exhibition in 1874 an event sponsored by Leyland but was never considered by the artist to be totally finished Within its predominantly pink color scheme intended to set off Mrs Leyland ™s red hair the subject is depicted wearing a multi-layered gown designed by the artist The abstract basketweave patterns of the matting at the base are repeated on the frame also designed by the artist; they offset the naturalistic flowering almond branches at the left which suggest Whistler ™s deep interest in Japanese art at this time Like the portrait of Montesquiou that of Mrs Leyland is signed at mid-right with Whistler ™s emblematic butterfly a pattern based on his initials JMW and imbued with the formalistic preoccupations of the nineteenth-century aesthetic movement The portrait is in fact so totally a work of exquisite design that Whistler ™s contemporary Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote of it with some reason I cannot see that it is at all a likeness Source Art in The Frick Collection Paintings Sculpture Decorative Arts New York Harry N Abrams 1996 http //collections frick org/Obj1020 18936 PD-old-100 Portrait paintings by James McNeill Whistler 1870s fashion Standing women in art 1870s portrait paintings | ||||
