Lalouette阿姨 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	Lalouette阿姨
品名（英）	Bibi Lalouette
入馆年号	1917年，17.3.44
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	James McNeill Whistler【1834 至 1903】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1859
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	Plate: 9 x 6 英寸 (22.9 x 15.2 厘米) 页: 12 3/8 x 8 1/4 英寸 (31.4 x 21 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个坐在床边的卷发小男孩来自惠斯勒在 1858-59 年创作的一系列肖像画。这个孩子以比比的宠物名字而闻名，是J. M. Lalouette的儿子，他在巴黎奥德翁街5号经营着一家小酒店和餐馆。惠斯勒经常在那里吃饭，搬到伦敦时留下了一大笔未付账单。1860 年 8 月，他寄出了部分付款，引起了拉卢埃特先生如释重负的回应，提到比比经常谈论这位艺术家，并指出家人对自己对当前作品的印象感到自豪。就像描绘他的哈登侄子和侄女一样，惠斯勒专注于他的主题的特征，几乎没有指出背景。放在柜台窗格上的黑色帽子可作为视觉标点符号来平衡孩子的头部。下面的幽灵形式表明早期的图像被擦掉了。不确定这个印记中袖子上的钩状划痕何时被添加到盘子上，也许是惠斯勒作为取消标记，但到 1883 年威廉·洛林·安德鲁斯（William Loring Andrews）向博物馆提供它出现的印刷品时，它就出现了（83.1.23）。
介绍（英）	This curly-haired little boy sitting on the edge of a bed comes from a series of portraits that Whistler made in 1858-59. Known by the pet name of Bibi, the child was son to J. M. Lalouette who ran a small hotel and restaurant at 5 rue de l'Odéon in Paris. Whistler often ate there and left a large unpaid bill when he moved to London. In August 1860 he sent partial payment, eliciting a relieved response from Monsieur Lalouette that mentions Bibi often talked of the artist, and noting the family's pride in their own impression of the present work. As in portrayals of his Haden nephews and niece, Whistler focused on his subject's features and barely indicated setting. A black cap resting on the counterpane functions as a visual punctuation point to balance the child's head. Ghostly forms below indicate that an earlier image was burnished away. It is not certain when a hooked scratch across the sleeve in this impression was added to the plate, perhaps by Whistler as a cancellation mark, but it was present by 1883 when William Loring Andrews gave the Museum a print where it appears (83.1.23).