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Orchids and a Butterfly

(Belgian, 1869–1941)
1912
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor with pen and black ink on buff paper laid down on board
DimensionsMounted: 44.6 × 59.3 cm (17 9/16 × 23 3/8 in.)
Credit LineVirginia Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund
Accession number2018.190
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
ProvenanceBy 1980, Louis Wittamer (b. 1905 – d. 1999) and Berthe Wittamer-De Camps (b. 1911 – d. 2005), Hôtel Solvay, Avenue Louise, Brussels [see note]; October 17, 2016, posthumous Wittamer sale, Piasa, Paris, lot 15, to Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Ltd., London; 2018, sold by Stephen Ongpin Fine Art Ltd. to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 2018)

NOTE: See Yolande Oostens-Wittamer, La Belle Epoque: Masterworks by Combaz, Leo Jo and Livemont (1980-1981), pp. 34-35, nos. 37 and 40.