The Butterfly
date: label: Date
content: 1872
name: label: Artist
content: Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: place depicted
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-14-1
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Painting
label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil paint on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: 39.6 x 57.8cm (15 9/16 x 22 3/4in.)