James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Butterfly (recto); Fragment of Butterfly (verso)

1898/99

Dating

Date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Pen and black ink over graphite (recto), and pen and black ink over graphite, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint (verso), on cream wove card

Dimensions

15.9 × 12.3 cm (6 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.)

Collection no.

1933.287

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Butterfly (recto); Fragment of Butterfly (verso). James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Art Institute of Chicago; Gift of Walter S. Brewster. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.