Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower left on verso; AIC / 24.660 (deaccessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago)
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 38988, ca 1904). John Henry Wrenn [1841-1911], Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago, 1924; deaccessioned by the Art Institute. Edward G. Kennedy [1849-1932], New York (Lugt 857). Purchased November 7, 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1931
- Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 309.
- 2012
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 324, only state.
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