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

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M.1253
Two butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.448
Medium: pencil
Support: cream wove paper laid down on card
Size: 7 1/2-7 5/8 x 4 13/16- 5 1/16" (190-193 x 123-129 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: trefoil and '7/16' in unknown hands

Two butterflies

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1253) as 'Two butterflies'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. pp. 172, 183.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 280, pl. 283.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.448, as 'Two Butterflies'.

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret