Art, literature & history
Bibi Lalouette
1859
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint in dark brown on blue-gray laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.) sheet: 23.3 x 22.7 cm (9 3/16 x 8 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1981.24.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Bibi Lalouette. Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Bibi Lalouette — James McNeill Whistler. 1859.
Medium: etching and drypoint in dark brown on blue-gray laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 22.5 x 15.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.) sheet: 23.3 x 22.7 cm (9 3/16 x 8 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1981.24.4. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.