A portrait of the model Christina Spartali (James McNeill Whistler's The Princess from the Land of Porcelain) prompted the financial dispute. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian The Peacock Room ...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, "Arrangement in Grey and Black ... flat in deference to the Japonisme craze, attuned to the vibration of low contrasts in space. The painting emboldened Whistler ...