The Butterfly is a genre oil on canvas painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It was painted in 1872 in the American Realist style. This work is located in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, New York.

The Butterfly is a genre oil on canvas painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It was painted in 1872 in the American Realist style. This work is located in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, New York.