The Butterfly (Q18605972)

Label from: English (en) Danish (da) Dutch (nl)

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movement: realism (Q10857409)
artist: Winslow Homer (Q344838)
collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Q1129820)
location: storage (Q9158768)
country of origin: United States of America (Q30)
owned by: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Q1129820) Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (Q18600397)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
location of final assembly: United States of America (Q30)
depicts: woman (Q467) hand fan (Q193220) sitting (Q1144593) chair (Q15026) lawn (Q207766) tree (Q10884) butterflies (Q11946202) Danaus plexippus (Q212398)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18189287/

information from the storage catalog

description: 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.

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