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

Butterfly was drawn for publication in Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890.

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

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1240).

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret