Bibi Valentin James McNeill Whistler American 1859 This image of a young girl seated on a bed, wearing a long dress and high buttoned boots, comes from a series of portraits that Whistler made in 1859. The subject, whose pet name was Bibi, was a daughter of the Valentin family. Her mother later wrote to the artist to remind him that they lived on Rue des Sts. Pères in Paris when the etching was made. Of the three examples in the Museum's collection (the others are and ), the drypoint lines in this impression retain more burr, with the plate sensitively wiped.

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