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

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M.1561
r.: and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.292
Medium: r.: graphite pencil, pen and black ink; v.: pen and white paint
Support: cream wove card
Size: 8 3/4 x 5 5/8" (223 x 143 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'The Baronets indiscretions' and 'size from top of body/ to lowest point of tail', and in unknown hand, '2 5/8 full'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster); v.: in unknown hands '8/ 33.292/ ac4123'
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r.: and v.: 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