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

 

M.1578
Butterfly with chequered wings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.289
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove card
Size: 119 x 158 mm (4 11/16 x 6 1/4")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: r.: ‘page 48 / Audacity’; v.: in unknown hands, '33.289/ 9/ a 4133'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster)

Butterfly with chequered wings

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.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret