Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room | |
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Artist | James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll |
Year | 1877 |
Type | Room installation |
Medium | Oil paint and gold leaf on canvas, leather, and wood |
Movement | Aestheticism and Japonisme |
Dimensions | 421.6 cm × 613.4 cm × 1026.2 cm (166.0 in × 241.5 in × 404.0 in) |
Location | Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
38°53′16.50″N 77°01′37.00″W / 38.8879167°N 77.0269444°W | |
Accession | F1904-61 |
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. Painted between 1876 and 1877, it now is considered one of the greatest surviving Aesthetic interiors, and best examples of the Anglo-Japanese style.[2]