The Butterfly
1872
- Medium
- Brush and oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39.6 × 57.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-119938
Horizontal view of woman in profile, holding a fan in her right hand and sitting in a folding chair on a shaded spot of lawn; tree foliage in background. She gazes down on a butterfly resting on the back of her left hand; another butterfly flits above the lawn near the left edge of picture.
Provenance
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
Registry history
- 1872 — Recorded in the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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