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Bibi Lalouette

Art Institute of Chicago
Accession no: 1942.578
State: 2/2

Collection credit:Gift of Mrs Samuel Marx  
Image credit:Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago  
Provenance:Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1942.  
Additional acq. no:R 7790  

 

Paper size:330 x 245 mm  
Plate mark size:225 x 152 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):japanese  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:Black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:printed with light plate tone, particularly on lower half of image  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:While Lochnan describes the print as one of Whistler's 'drypoint' portraits, most of the plate is etched.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler. 1859.'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:see signature  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:'c. 16380' at lower right recto; another erased c number on verso  
Misc inscriptions by others:'III' (roman numeral) at lower right recto; Kennedy no., state and title by Harold Wright at lower left recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0510204  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.