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

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M.1257
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.326
Medium: pencil
Support: buff card
Size: 4 9/16 x 4 1/8-4 7/16" (116 x 104-113 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1257) as 'Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. p. 234.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret