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

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M.1566
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.285
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove card
Size: 8-8 1/8 x 5 3/4" (204-207 x 146 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'page 12 -', and in unknown hand 'This size in width.'; v.: in unknown hands 'a 58640 /axx- / 7 / 33.285 / a123'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster)

Butterfly

Provenance

  • 1920: sold on 16 April by Albert Louis Roullier (1858-1920) , art dealer, Chicago, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954) ;
  • 1933: given to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The earlier provenance is unknown. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1561).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret