Bibi Valentin | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M12662
People: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title: Bibi Valentin
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1859
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/262845

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on off-white wove paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 15.2 × 22.8 cm (6 × 9 in.)
sheet: 17.4 × 24.6 cm (6 7/8 × 9 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in plate: Whistler 1859
inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: EH
inscription: lower left, etched: Whistler. 1859.
collector's mark: verso, black stamp with accession number written in graphite:
THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,662 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347a), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: Glasgow ii/ii
Standard Reference Number: Kennedy 50, Glasgow 34

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel
Accession Year: 1951
Object Number: M12662
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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