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

 

M.1561
r.: and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.292
Medium: r.: graphite pencil, pen and black ink; v.: pen and white paint
Support: cream wove card
Size: 8 3/4 x 5 5/8" (223 x 143 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'The Baronets indiscretions' and 'size from top of body/ to lowest point of tail', and in unknown hand, '2 5/8 full'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster); v.: in unknown hands '8/ 33.292/ ac4123'

r.: and v.: Butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1561) as 'r.: and v.: Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. xii.

Websites

  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 47).
  • 'Cats. 40–47 Butterflies and Club: Tombstone,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020) URL, (cat. no. 47) as 'Butterfly (recto); Study of Butterfly (verso)'.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret