Composition

Two Butterflies, Freer Gallery of Art

Designed for Whistler 1890 [more] . The butterfly at the top is for p. 183, 'The Opportunity Neglected', a letter to the Gazette de Beaux-Arts, June 1878, regretting he could afford the luxury of having an etching published by them. The lower one was for p. 172, 'Nous avons changé tout cela!', a letter to Henry Du Pré Labouchere (1831-1912), Truth, published 2 September 1885, concerning the mediocre standards of Academy art.