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

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