# The Butterfly

- By: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/21697)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/50dc63496319f14c29169f912b1b4be3.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.