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360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.
The gallery was founded by Detroit railroad-car manufacturer and self-taught connoisseur Charles Lang Freer.He owned the largest collection of works by American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and became a patron and friend of the famously irascible artist.
Portrait of Whistler with Hat (1858), a self-portrait at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. At this point, Whistler firmly decided that art would be his future. For a few months he lived in Baltimore with a wealthy friend, Tom Winans, who furnished Whistler with a studio and some spending cash.
James McNeil Whistler, The Peacock Room, 1876-1877, Leather, Wood, Oil Paint, Canvas, Freer Gallery of Art. Freer is known for his collection of late nineteenth century American painting and Asian art, developed largely after his retirement in 1899.
Princess, hanging over the fireplace in The Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art. After Freer's death in 1919, both Princess and The Peacock Room were moved to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., a Smithsonian museum established by Freer. [1] [9] Princess continues to be housed in The Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery, shown hung ...
[5] [1] Several sketches in the Freer Gallery of Art suggest that while Whistler based the composition on the painting of his mother, he also considered variations: a chalk drawing shows Carlyle seated at an angle to the wall, a corner of the room shown at left, and without the coat that would be thrown over his lap in the painting. [1]
The resulting Peacock Room is considered one of Whistler's greatest works. After Leyland's death, his widow sold The Peacock Room to the American industrialist and art collector Charles Lang Freer who had it dismantled and shipped to the United States. It is now in the Smithsonian Museum's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
The structure on the right is the carriage house of the Freer House, where The Peacock Room was installed. The structure on the left is the carriage house of the next-door Hecker house. On the interior, Eyre designed the home with Freer's art collection in mind. [5] (This collection is now in the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art.)