Bella
1924
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on velin arches laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.2 x 11.6 cm (8 3/4 x 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 28.1 x 22.5 cm (11 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard E. Pinkus
Accession Number
1995.84.4
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marc Chagall · 1887–1985
Marc Chagall, born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Liozna near Vitebsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), grew up as the eldest of nine children in a devout Jewish family confined to the Pale of Settlement. His father worked as a herring merchant's porter, while his mother sold groceries from home, instilling in young Chagall a deep connection to Hasidic Judaism and Eastern European folklore a...