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

 

M.1240
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 33.284
Medium: graphite pencil
Support: off-white card
Size: 3 3/16 x 6 1/8" (81 x 156 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: '33.284' and 'OCT' in unknown hands; 'WSB' (collector's mark of Walter Stanton Brewster)

Butterfly

Description

Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago
Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago

A dancing butterfly with a barbed tail, facing to right. It was slightly rubbed and altered, before being sent for reproduction in Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890.

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret