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

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M.1562
r.: Butterfly 'Encountered'; v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.288
Medium: r.: pen and black ink over pencil; v.: pencil
Support: cream wove card
Size: 6 1/8 x 4 3/4" (155 x 121 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'top./ "Encountered" ' and sideways 'size from highest point of tail to bottom of lowest foot.' Collector's mark of 'WSB' ( Walter Stanton Brewster); v.: in unknown hands '33.285/oc 4123'
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r.: Butterfly 'Encountered'; v.: Butterfly

Provenance

  • 1920: sold on 16 April by Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920), art dealer, Chicago, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954);
  • 1933: given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The earlier provenance is unknown. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1561).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret