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

 

M.1579
r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: E. R. and J. Pennell Collection, DRWG/MA Whistler
Medium: r.: pencil, pen, dark brown ink and white paint; v.: pencil
Support: buff card
Size: 114 x 92 mm (4 1/2 x 3 5/8")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: r.: ‘outside / distance across’; v.: in unknown hand, ‘Heinemann / Today’

r.: Butterfly; v.: 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 'r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings'.

Authored by Whistler

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

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Anon., The Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana shown in Division of Prints, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1921, (cat. no. 48, 49, or 50).
  • Dorment, Richard, and Margaret F. MacDonald (eds), James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994-1995, (cat. no. 98).

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret