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Inscription

center left in plate: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite: [the artist's butterfly] imp.; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 4; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: B26957; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: FWOX.

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1952
Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952
1982
American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 27
1982
Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 32
1983
The Grand Tour, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983
2003
Whistler and His Circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 90, no. 39, repro

Bibliography

1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 191.
2012
MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 233, viii/ix. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk

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