Princess from Land of Porcelain. Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain is a painting by American-born artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
It was painted between 1863 and 1865. The painting currently hangs above the fireplace in The Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Princess depicts a beautiful Western woman wearing a Hanfu and standing amidst numerous Asian objects, including a rug and screen as well as some porcelain. She holds a hand fan and looks at the viewer wistfully.
The entirety is rendered in an impressionistic manner. Princess frame is decorated with a similar motif to the painting, with interlocking circles and numerous rectangles.
Aiko Okamoto-MacPhall notes that Whistler at the time he painted Princess often used large amounts of gold color, such as in his similarly themed Caprice in Purple and Gold No.2: The Gold Screen. Although the painting itself does not include any shades of gold, while displayed at the home of British shipping magnate Frederick Leyland it was set in a gold and blue interior. Princess was painted between 1863 and 1865 by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, with Christine Spartali, the sister of Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman, serving as the model; Owen Edwards of Smithsonian describes Spartali as an Anglo-Greek beauty whom all the artists of the day were clamoring to paint. Princess is one of several of Whistler's wor
It was painted between 1863 and 1865. The painting currently hangs above the fireplace in The Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Princess depicts a beautiful Western woman wearing a Hanfu and standing amidst numerous Asian objects, including a rug and screen as well as some porcelain. She holds a hand fan and looks at the viewer wistfully.
The entirety is rendered in an impressionistic manner. Princess frame is decorated with a similar motif to the painting, with interlocking circles and numerous rectangles.
Aiko Okamoto-MacPhall notes that Whistler at the time he painted Princess often used large amounts of gold color, such as in his similarly themed Caprice in Purple and Gold No.2: The Gold Screen. Although the painting itself does not include any shades of gold, while displayed at the home of British shipping magnate Frederick Leyland it was set in a gold and blue interior. Princess was painted between 1863 and 1865 by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, with Christine Spartali, the sister of Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman, serving as the model; Owen Edwards of Smithsonian describes Spartali as an Anglo-Greek beauty whom all the artists of the day were clamoring to paint. Princess is one of several of Whistler's wor
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