Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | 1875 Size:12"x16" illuminating gondolas and sailing vessels

illuminating gondolas and sailing vessels that drift quietly in the foreground

barely visible

Young Man with a Skull (1626) by Frans Hals presents a youthful figure mid-gesture

thought-provoking piece of art

Beneath a pale moon

Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | 1875 Size:12"x16" illuminating gondolas and sailing vesselsNocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket is a c. 1875 painting by James Abbott 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 Thophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire. First shown at the Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1877, it is one of two works (the other being Nocturne in Black and Gold The Firewheel) inspired by the Cremorne Gardens, a