1871

Showing 2 artworks from 1871

Portrait · Realism

Whistler's Mother

James McNeill Whistler

1871 · Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Whistler called it Arrangement in Grey and Black and insisted it was about tone, not feeling. The sitter was his mother, and nobody was fooled.

★ 8.0

Religious painting

Ecce Homo (Ciseri)

Antonio Ciseri

1871 · Location unknown

We are standing behind Pilate, looking out over his shoulder at the crowd, which puts us among the officials rather than the mob.

★ 4.2