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

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M.1259
Three butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 33.293
Medium: graphite pencil
Support: cream card
Size: 9 7/16 x 8 1/8" (240 x 207 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: r.: 'WSB' (collector's mark of W. S. Brewster), v.: 'R1375t' in an unknown hand

Three butterflies

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1259) as 'Three butterflies'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. p. 248.

Websites

  • Art Institute of Chicago website at https://www.artic.edu.
  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 30).

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret