Who filed a libel lawsuit after this painting was criticized?
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According to the Detroit Institute Of Arts, James Abbott McNeill Whistler had based Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket on a fireworks display in London’s Cremorne Gardens. However, art critic John Ruskin was sued for libel after saying he “never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.” Since Whistler’s process was more involved than that, he won his libel lawsuit but was only rewarded a farthing.
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Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Who filed a libel lawsuit after this painting was criticized?
- Diego Velázquez
- Henri Fantin-Latour
- Alphonse Legros
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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