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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.
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.
It depicts the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle in a composition similar to that of Whistler's 1871 Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, commonly known as Whistler's Mother. It is now in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland.
New York: Hyperion Books for Children, in association with the Freer Gallery of Art. ISBN 1-56282-327-2. Merrill, Linda, et al. (2003) After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10125-2. Munhall, Edgar (1995). Whistler and Montesquiou: The Butterfly and the Bat.
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.)
Arrangement in White and Black, James McNeill Whistler, 1876. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Maud Franklin (9 January 1857 – 18 November 1939) was an English artist and the mistress of and model for artist James McNeill Whistler.