Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Four butterflies

Provenance

  • 1890: probably sent by Whistler to William Heinemann (1863-1920), London publisher.
  • 1904: bought from Obach, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1238).

Exhibitions

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret