Inscription
center left on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: To my friend Mr. Frederick S. Church- / C.L. Freer. / Detroit, August 7th 1890 -; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: A94508 / W.30. MK 32821
Provenance
Charles Lang Freer, Detroit, Michigan; Frederick S. Church, New York, 1890; (Knoedler & Co., New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Exhibition History
- 1977
- American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 14
- 1982
- American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 28
- 1983
- Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 31
- 1990
- Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 52
Bibliography
- 1896
- Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 30.
- 1998
- Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 136-138, no. 29.
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