Bibi Lalouette, 1859

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.86 × 15.24 cm (9 × 6 in.)

sheet: 27.31 × 19.84 cm (10 3/4 × 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Julius Garfinckel)

Catalogue Raisonné

MacDonald 2012, no. 33, state ii/ii

Accession Number

2015.19.405

Artists / Makers

James McNeill Whistler (artist) American, 1834 - 1903

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Whistler. 1859.; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: 11041; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1718; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Bibi Lalouette / A76024 [crossed out] A98101; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: FYX

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., New York); Julius Garfinckel, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frederick Keppel & Co.
Garfinckel, Julius

Exhibition History

1952: Whistler, Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1952

1982: Whistler’s World: The Master’s Etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 20

1990: Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 31, repro

Bibliography

1910: Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 51.

2012: MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 33, ii/ii. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk