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

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M.1256
Four butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Accession Number: M.2015.73.48
Medium: pencil
Support: white wove paper
Size: 11 3/16 x 8 3/4" (284 x 223 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: v.: 'not in heirloom list' and 'BL 939' in unknown hands

Four butterflies

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1256) as 'Four butterflies'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. p. 210, 217, 276.

Websites

  • LACMA website at https://collections.lacma.org/node/2111260, as 'Butterflies: Design for The Gentle Art of Making Enemies'.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret