Birth
Marc Chagall
1922
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.9 x 17.5 cm (5 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.) sheet: 27 x 35.7 cm (10 5/8 x 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard E. Pinkus
Accession Number
1992.36.2
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...