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

 

M.1578
Butterfly with chequered wings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.289
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove card
Size: 119 x 158 mm (4 11/16 x 6 1/4")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: r.: ‘page 48 / Audacity’; v.: in unknown hands, '33.289/ 9/ a 4133'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster)

Butterfly with chequered wings

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1579) as 'Butterfly with chequered wings'.

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. 44).
  • '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. 44) as 'Butterfly with Checkered Wings'.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret