James McNeill Whistler · 1875

Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket

Name: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket by James McNeill Whistler
Brand: Chromora
SKU: whistler-nocturne-falling-rocket
Price: 15.00 CAD
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Whistler's revolutionary atmosphere study — fireworks fading over Cremorne Gardens, painted so loosely that Ruskin sued him for libel and called it 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' Whistler won. Detroit Institute of Arts.

Up to 8 × 10 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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Hand-printed in Ottawa

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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.

About this painting

The story of Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket

Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket is a c. 1875 painting by James McNeill Whistler held in the Detroit Institute of Arts. The painting exemplified the art for art's sake movement – a concept formulated by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

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".

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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