Butterfly and Peonies, from a series of Eleven Pictures of Insects, Birds, and Flowers

8 April 1919, purchased from Lucy F. Brown (New York, NY) by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

• Keyes, Roger S., Peter Morse. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Single-Sheet Colour Woodblock Prints of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)." The British Museum, 2015. https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/booksrske/search.php. cat. no. 885 (not illus.)
• Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. p. 576, fig. 7
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 215

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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