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

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M.1259
Three butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 33.293
Medium: graphite pencil
Support: cream card
Size: 9 7/16 x 8 1/8" (240 x 207 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: r.: 'WSB' (collector's mark of W. S. Brewster), v.: 'R1375t' in an unknown hand
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Three butterflies

Provenance

  • 1890: probably sent by Whistler to William Heinemann (1863-1920), London publisher.
  • 1903: acquired by Robert Charles Goff (1837-1922).
  • 1920 or 1924: sold by Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920), Chicago art dealer, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, April 1920 or November 1924;
  • 1933: given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

For further details seeMacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1259).

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret