Calf (Le veau)
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etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Frank Crowninshield Collection
Accession Number
1948.3.162
Art Historical Context
**Calf (Le veau)**, a delicate 1935 etching by French André Dunoyer de Segonzac, captures the form of a young calf with remarkable precision. Housed in the National Gallery Art's Frank Crowninshield Collection (Department CG-W), this print exemplifies Segonzac's fascination with rural subjects during the interwar period. Created amid France's cultural shift toward celebrating pastoral simplicity against urban industrialization, the work invites viewers to appreciate the quiet beauty of farm life. Segonzac, a key figure in the École de Paris, blended realist observation with a modern sensibili...
About the Artist
André Dunoyer de Segonzac
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974) was a leading French painter, draughtsman, engraver, and illustrator, born on 6 July in Boussy-Saint-Antoine near Paris, where he spent much of his childhood alongside time in the city. Defying his parents' initial hopes for a military career at Saint-Cyr, he pursued art, enrolling in 1900 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a general student. He studied u...