Butterfly in art: paintings, drawings and prints

Forest Floor with a Crab, Butterflies, Toads, Shells and Tortoises, Paolo Porpora

Forest Floor with a Crab, Butterflies, Toads, Shells and Tortoises, 1650.

Sottobosco con granchio, farfalle, rospi, conchiglie e… (museum title)

Paolo Porpora (Italian), oil on canvas

Gallerie d'Italia (Naples), Italy

The Young Gleaner or The Butterflies, Paul Peel

The Young Gleaner or The Butterflies, 1888.

Paul Peel (Canadian), oil on canvas

Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

The Magnolia, 1900.

La magnolia (museum title)

Julio Ruelas (Mexican), oil on canvas

National Museum of Art (MUNAL), Mexico City, Mexico

Forest Floor with Mushrooms, Frogs, Lizards and Snakes, Paolo Porpora

Forest Floor with Mushrooms, Frogs, Lizards and Snakes, 1652.

Sottobosco con funghi, rane, lucertole e serpenti (museum title)

Paolo Porpora (Italian), oil on canvas

Gallerie d'Italia (Naples), Italy

Hydrangeas, 1902.

紫陽花 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese)

Adachi Museum of Art, Japan

A Girl on the Field, Elin Danielson-Gambogi

A Girl on the Field, 1885.

Tyttö pellolla (museum title)

Elin Danielson-Gambogi (Finnish)

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

Yosooi of the Matsubaya, from the series Selections from Six Houses in Yoshiwara (Seiro rokkasen) (Matsubaya Yosooi), Kitagawa Utamaro

Yosooi of the Matsubaya, from the series Selections from Six Houses in Yoshiwara (Seiro rokkasen) (Matsubaya Yosooi), c. 1801.

Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese), colour woodcut on paper

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

The Blind Girl, 1856.

John Everett Millais (British), oil on canvas

Birmingham Museums Trust, United Kingdom

Flowers and Fruit of Barringtonia, Borneo, Marianne North

Flowers and Fruit of Barringtonia, Borneo, 1876.

Marianne North (British), oil

Marianne North Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), oil on oak panel

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

The Island Garden, 1892.

Childe Hassam (American), watercolor on paper

Smithsonian American Art Museum, United States

Bouquet of Flowers, c. 1900–1905.

Odilon Redon (French), pastel on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Rosebush, Stoclet Frieze, 1910–1911.

Working Drawing of the Execution of a Mosaic Frieze for the… (museum title)

Gustav Klimt (Austrian), gouache, pastel, gold and silver on tracing paper

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria

Four o'clock flower, 1847.

Belle-de-nuit (museum title)

Grandville (French), hand-colored steel engraving

Getty Research Institute, United States

Cupid and Psyche, 1817.

Jacques-Louis David (French), oil on canvas

Cleveland Museum of Art, United States

Fish and Butterflies, 1900.

Winslow Homer (American)

Clark Art Institute, United States

Cupid and Psyche, 1798.

Psyché et l'Amour (museum title)

François Gérard (French), oil on canvas

Louvre Museum, France

Immortal Blossoms in Eternal Spring: Chinese Pink

清郎世寧畫仙萼長春冊石竹 (museum title)

Giuseppe Castiglione (Italian), ink and color on silk

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taïwan

Still Life with Flowers, 1905.

Odilon Redon (French), oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

Etruscan Vase with Flowers, Odilon Redon

Etruscan Vase with Flowers, 1900–1910.

Odilon Redon (French), distemper on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Portrait of a Dog, 1891.

Hundporträtt (museum title)

Bruno Liljefors (Swedish), oil on canvas

Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

Four Bird Studies, Red-Backed Shrike, Corncrake, Chaffinches, Willow Warbler, Bruno Liljefors

Four Bird Studies, Red-Backed Shrike, Corncrake, Chaffinches, Willow Warbler, 1887.

Fyra fågelstudier i en ram: Törnskata, Kornknarr, Bofinkar… (museum title)

Bruno Liljefors (Swedish), oil on wood and canvas

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Maraak, Variation I (Merzbild), Kurt Schwitters

Maraak, Variation I (Merzbild), 1930.

Kurt Schwitters (German), oil and assemblage of objects on cardboard

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Putto and Butterfly, 1895.

Putto und Schmetterling (museum title)

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss), tempera on panel

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Five Butterflies, c. 1912.

Odilon Redon (French), watercolor on paper

National Gallery of Art, United States

The Captive, 1891.

Le Captif (museum title)

William Bouguereau (French), oil on canvas

Toledo Museum of Art, United States

Flowers and Butterflies of Sarawak, Borneo, Marianne North

Flowers and Butterflies of Sarawak, Borneo, 1876.

Marianne North (British), oil

Marianne North Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

Flowers and Fruit on a Table, 1791.

Blomster og frugter på et bord (museum title)

Jens Juel (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Flowers in a Japanese Vase, Odilon Redon

Flowers in a Japanese Vase, 1908.

Odilon Redon (French), oil on canvas

Pola Museum of Art, Japan

Peony with butterfly, 1925–1936.

Pioenroos met vlinder (museum title)

Ohara Koson (Japanese), color woodblock print

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Butterfly Hunting, c. 1806.

Thomas Rowlandson (British), pen, ink and watercolour

Yale Center for British Art, United States

Butterfly (Swallowtail), Stanisław Wyspiański

Butterfly (Swallowtail), 1897–1898.

Motyl (Paź królowej) (museum title)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish), pastel on paper

National Museum in Kraków, Poland

Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Title Page, plate 2, William Blake

Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Title Page, plate 2, 1804–1820.

Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Title Page… (museum title)

William Blake (British), relief etching with watercolor and pen

Yale Center for British Art, United States

Surrealist Composition I (An Airship and an Epitaph with the Word LEX)

Composição Surrealista I (Um Dirigível e um Epitáfio com a… (museum title)

Ismael Nery (Brazilian), india ink on paper

Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Carnation, 1847.

Œillet (museum title)

Grandville (French), hand-colored steel engraving

Getty Research Institute, United States

Garden with Butterflies, Vincent van Gogh

Garden with Butterflies, 1890.

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch), oil on canvas

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Butterflies, c. 1910.

Papillons (museum title)

Odilon Redon (French), oil on cardboard

Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Germany

Evocation of Butterflies, 1910.

Odilon Redon (French), oil on canvas

Detroit Institute of Arts, United States

Title Page, Part I, 1846.

Title Page, Part I, from Les Fleurs Animees (museum title)

Grandville (French), hand-colored steel engraving

Minneapolis Institute of Art, United States

Apparition, 1905–1910.

Odilon Redon (French), oil on canvas

Princeton University Art Museum, United States

The Dance of Albion (Glad Day), William Blake

The Dance of Albion (Glad Day), c. 1803–1810.

William Blake (British), engraving

National Gallery of Art, United States

Still life with a snake, frogs, tortoise and a lizard, Paolo Porpora

Still life with a snake, frogs, tortoise and a lizard, 17th century.

Paolo Porpora (Italian), oil on canvas

National Museum Cardiff (Amgueddfa Cymru), United Kingdom

The Breadfruit, painted at Singapore, Marianne North

The Breadfruit, painted at Singapore, 1876.

Marianne North (British), oil

Marianne North Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom

Chariot of Apollo, 1912.

Odilon Redon (French), oil on canvas

Museum of Modern Art, United States

Album of paintings, image 13

화집 (museum title)

Sim Sa-jeong (Korean), ink and color on silk

National Museum of Korea, Corée du Sud

Butterflies, c. 1910.

Papillons (museum title)

Odilon Redon (French), oil on canvas

Museum of Modern Art, United States

An Apple, caville rouge, and other Fruits, Jens Juel

An Apple, caville rouge, and other Fruits, 1791.

Et æble, caville rouge, og andre frugter (museum title)

Jens Juel (Danish), oil on wood

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Immortal Blossoms in Eternal Spring: Lotus and Arrowhead

清郎世寧畫仙萼長春冊荷花慈姑 (museum title)

Giuseppe Castiglione (Italian), ink and color on silk

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taïwan

Flowers with a Butterfly and a Snail (Children's Album), Adolph Menzel

Flowers with a Butterfly and a Snail (Children's Album), 1863–1883.

Blumen mit einem Schmetterling und Schnecke. Aus dem… (museum title)

Adolph Menzel (German), watercolor and gouache on paper

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Germany

L'Herbage aux papillons, Vincent van Gogh

L'Herbage aux papillons, 1890.

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch), oil on canvas

National Gallery, United Kingdom