Three Butterflies

Prints and Drawings

c. 1890

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: Three Butterflies
Origin: United States
Date: 1890–1903
Medium: Graphite on cream wove card
Inscriptions: Inscribed, verso, bottom left, in graphite: "R1375t"
Dimensions: 241 × 209 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.293
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James McNeill Whistler, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), pp. 221, 248.
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 456, no. 1259 (ill.).

Col. R. Goff, from 1903 [MacDonald 1995]. Sold by Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, November 1924 [MacDonald 1995; stamp (Lugt 2651 a-b), recto, upper left, in blue]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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