Object Details
- Description
- Drawing of Whistler's butterfly.
- Signatures
- Unsigned.
- Provenance
- To 1905
- Obach & Co., London, to 1905 [1]
- From 1905 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1905 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Whistler List, Drawings, pg. 2, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Date
- ca. 1890
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Pencil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W: 18.2 x 10.5 cm (7 3/16 x 4 1/8 in)
- Type
- Drawing
