James McNeill Whistler · 1888–1900
Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian
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Whistler's late full-length portrait of his sister-in-law Ethel Whibley, seen from behind with her head in profile, in a grey silk evening dress and sheer black bolero against a dusky brown wall. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 8 × 17.3 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian
The model is Ethel Whibley, née Birnie Philip, Whistler's secretary and sister-in-law. The title refers to the colour scheme of black, mother-of-pearl and silver: her grey silk evening dress is in the Parisian Belle Époque manner, while the transparent layered sleeves of her black bolero jacket evoke a traditional Andalusian costume.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
All James McNeill Whistler prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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