In Bean, what famous painting does Mr. Bean damage at the Los Angeles gallery?

In Bean, Mr. Bean damages Whistler’s Mother, the popular name for James McNeill Whistler’s painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1. The painting is central to the film’s main comic disaster.

The movie’s plot sends Bean to Los Angeles as an apparently unsuitable representative for Britain’s National Gallery. He is expected to help oversee the arrival and public presentation of Whistler’s painting, but his clumsy behaviour eventually puts the artwork at risk.

Whistler’s Mother is not the painting’s formal title. James McNeill Whistler painted Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 in 1871, and the work became widely known by its informal title because it depicts the artist’s mother, Anna McNeill Whistler.

The real painting belongs to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, not a Los Angeles gallery. The film uses a fictional sequence around the artwork, so its damage and restoration are part of the comedy rather than real art-history events.