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

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M.1245
Four butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Pennell Collection
Medium: black crayon and white paint
Support: off-white wove paper laid down on cream wove paper, stuck in a copy of 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (Whistler 1890) on p. 1, opposite Whistler's butterfly and numbering ('No. 37') of the edition
Size: 8 1/4 x 6 7/16" (209 x 163 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: '164' in unknown hand

Four butterflies

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1245) as 'Four butterflies'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. pp. 65, 164.

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret