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

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M.1260
A butterfly in the clouds

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.90
Medium: black chalk and white paint
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 9 13/16-10 1/16 x 9-9 1/16" (250-255 x 229-231 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: '[3/4w]' in an unknown hand.

A butterfly in the clouds

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1260) as 'A butterfly in the clouds'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. p. 287.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, repr. p 335.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret