The Butterfly
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.
Credit: Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
1872
Brush and oil paint on canvas
1917-14-1
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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