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

Provenance

  • 1890: probably sent by Whistler to William Heinemann (1863-1920) , London publisher.
  • 1904: bought from Obach, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1243).

Exhibitions

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret