Harvard Art Museums
Butterfly for a Valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery
James Abbott McNeill WhistlerLinkedCulture matchlcp-955f4f3270e4
- Date
- c. 1884
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolor on beige laid paper
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Department of Drawings
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
- Object ID
- 4654
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- Provenance
- Alexander J. Taylor. Ernst Arnold, Dresden, 1911. Konrad Zimmermann, Berlin. Private Collector, Britain. According to MacDonald, offered for sale to Lowell Art Association (April 11 and June 24, 1953) Nordness, London. 1962-1966 Fine Art Society PLC, London, purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1974. Sotheby's, London, sold to Fine Arts Society, 1974. Sale, London, June 19, 1974, lot 50. Patricia Cornwell, Belmont, MA, gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.
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