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

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M.1569
r.: Butterfly; v.: Fragment of butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.290
Medium: r.: graphite pencil, pen and black ink; v.: graphite pencil, pen and brush
Support: cream wove card
Size: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4" (120 x 158 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'top. / page 58./ "Shocking bad Raconteur" ' and 'size from tip of antennae / to foot -', and in an unknown hand '5 16s. / 16'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster)

r.: Butterfly; v.: Fragment of butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1569) as 'r.: Butterfly; v.: Fragment of butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. 58.

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. 45).
  • '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. 45).

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret