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

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M.1565
r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.287
Medium: r: graphite pencil, pen and black ink; v: ditto plus white opaque paint
Support: cream wove card
Size: 6 3/16 x 4 11/16-4 13/16" (157 x 119-122 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'size across, outside/measure. / page 59 - / filtered into court.' and in unknown hand '5/16'; v.: in unknown hands '33.279 / oc 4123'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster)

r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1565) as 'r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, repr. p. 6.

Websites

  • 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. 42).
  • 'Cats. 40–47 Butterflies and Club: Tombstone,' in Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020) URL (cat. no. 42) as 'Butterfly (recto); Fragment of Butterfly (verso)'.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret