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

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M.1243
Three Butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.450
Medium: chalk, black wash and white paint
Support: thin grained tissue, possibly lithographic transfer paper, laid down on wove paper
Size: 7 11/16 x 5 1/4 -5 1/2" (195 x 134-139 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: none

Three Butterflies

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1243) as 'Three Butterflies'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. pp. 39, 71, 283.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 282, pl. 287.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.450, as 'Three Butterflies'.

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret