Art, literature & history
Five Butterflies
1646
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching; first state of three
- Dimensions
- Plate: 3 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (8 × 11.8 cm) Sheet: 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 in. (9.2 × 13 cm)
- Collection no.
- 26.72.125
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Wenceslaus Hollar. Five Butterflies. Wenceslaus Hollar; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Five Butterflies — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1646.
Medium: Etching; first state of three. Dimensions: Plate: 3 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (8 × 11.8 cm) Sheet: 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 in. (9.2 × 13 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.