Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned man with a mustache stands with one hand on his hip and the other hand held up in this dark-toned, vertical portrait painting. The man’s body is angled to our right almost in profile, but he turns his face to us. He looks out with dark eyes and one eyebrow lifted. He has a straight nose, flushed cheeks, a tuft of hair under his pink lower lip, a wide mustache, and a narrow chin. His brown hair appears to be tousled but it blends into the sable-brown background, making details difficult to make out. The edge of a white collar and shirt front is tucked…
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Gold and Brown: Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834 - 1903)

c. 1896-1898

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 62.5 × 46.8 cm (24 5/8 × 18 7/16 in.) ; framed: 93.98 × 78.74 × 11.43 cm (37 × 31 × 4 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edith Stuyvesant Gerry
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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