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Whistler's Butterfly by James McNeill Whistler — VisualArtsDB

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Whistler's Butterfly

Whistler's Butterfly

Whistler's Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler

1880

Medium: Pencil and Chinese white on cardboard
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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