Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1917.4a-b
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 7 5/8" x 11 13/16" (194 x 300 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'The Steps' and butterfly originally written on backing