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

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

r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings were drawn in 1899 to illustrate a book: James McNeill Whistler, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899. The drawing on the verso is fragmentary and faint.


                r.: Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago
r.: Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago

They are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1565).

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