Butterfly with Checkered Wings

Prints and Drawings

1898/99

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: Butterfly with Checkered Wings
Origin: United States
Date: 1898–1899
Medium: Pen and black ink on cream wove card
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, center right, in black ink: "[length notation] page 48 / Audacity"; inscribed verso, center botton, in graphite: "9"; inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "oc 4123" (written sideways)
Dimensions: 121 × 158 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster
Reference Number: 1933.289
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Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 566, no. 1578 (ill.).

Chicago, Albert Roullier Art Galleries, “Original Drawings by Old and Modern Masters,” March 7-21, 1921, p. 5, cat. 47.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Portraits of Whistler and Some Original Drawings by Whistler, Loaned by Walter S. Brewster,” January 19-February 7, 1923, cat. 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10.
Possibly Art Institute of Chicago, “Summer Exhibitions, James McNeill Whistler - Paintings, Prints, Whistleriana,” July 20-October 29, 1939, cat. 7 or 8.

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

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