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The Butterfly
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
1872
- Medium
- Brush and oil paint on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 39.6 x 57.8cm (15 9/16 x 22 3/4in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
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.
