スミソニアン博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (スミソニアン博物館Instagram)「This dining room has everything: gold peacocks, built-in shelving, a vicious art feud. In 1876, shipping magnate Frederick Leyland hired artist James McNeill Whistler to redecorate the dining room of his London home. The room was also used to display Leyland’s collection of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. While Leyland was out of town, Whistler took it upon himself to totally reimagine the space as a “harmony in blue and gold,” covering the doors, ceiling and walls with peacock-inspired designs. Leyland was not amused with the room (or the bill). The epic dispute that followed severed the relationship between the artist and patron, but not before Whistler came back to add a mural of two fighting peacocks, which he titled "Art and Money: or, The Story of the Room." Charles Lang Freer purchased the room in 1904 and had it taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic, and reassembled in his home in Detroit, where he filled its shelves with ceramics he collected from across Asia. Experience the Peacock Room at our @natasianart, which is marking its 100th anniversary this month with programs, performances and a multi-week festival.」5月6日 0時43分