Butterfly

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1890

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: Butterfly
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1890–1903
Medium: Graphite on cream board
Inscriptions: Inscribed, recto, upper right, in blue: "O"; inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "OC T" (written sideways)
Dimensions: 8.1 × 15.9 cm (3 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.284
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James McNeill Whistler, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, 1890), pp. 17 and 242 (ill.).
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 450, no. 1240 (ill.).

Probably Chicago, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, “Original Drawings by Old and Modern Masters,” March 7-21, 1921, p. 5, cat. 47.
Probaby Chicago, Arts Club, “Portraits of Whistler and Some Original Drawings by Whistler, Loaned by Walter S. Brewster,” January 19-February 7, 1923, cat. 1 or 2.

Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter S. Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, April 16, 1920 [invoice; stamp (Lugt 2651 a-b), recto, lower right, in blue]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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