Gold and Brown: Self-Portrait
James McNeill Whistler · c. 1896-1898 · oil on canvas
Public domain
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About this picture
Gold and Brown: Self-Portrait is a public-domain painting by James McNeill Whistler, dated c. 1896-1898. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Gold and Brown: Self-Portrait” (c. 1896-1898) is meant to be read as a harmony of tone. Whistler often called such pictures arrangements or nocturnes rather than views of a place.
About the artist
James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was an American artist working in London and Paris. He titled many pictures as arrangements or nocturnes, asking that they be seen as harmonies of tone, not only as portraits of a place.
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