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Catching butterflies

Artist Jeanette Vogt Bernard (American, 1855 - 1941)
Dateca. 1908
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 1/16 × 4 7/16 inches (15.39 × 11.23 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2019.56.2
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "15749"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of a young child whose hair is curled in ringlets. She is wearing a long dress and holds a butterfly net above a butterfly, which rests on a leafy bush.Provenance
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2019;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO to The Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2019.
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