Recognise it? Meet the many faces of Whistler’s Mother

Whistler’s Portrait of the artist’s mother, 1871, usually known as Whistler’s Mother, will be on loan to the National Gallery of Victoria from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the international shrine of Impressionist painting.

In return the NGV will lend one of its most precious French Impressionist paintings Pierre Bonnard’s Siesta (La Sieste), 1900, to the Musée d’Orsay.