Charmless (Sans Attrait)
c. 1902
Medium
graphite and brown wash with touches of blue wash, blue pencil, and green pencil on wove paper laid down on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 16.1 × 12.7 cm (6 5/16 × 5 in.) mount: 34.1 × 27.6 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf Collection
Accession Number
2018.26.27
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jacques Villon · 1875–1963
Jacques Villon, born Gaston Émile Duchamp on July 31, 1875, in Damville, Normandy, hailed from a family brimming with artistic talent. As the eldest of six children, he grew up alongside his brothers Raymond Duchamp-Villon, a pioneering sculptor, and Marcel Duchamp, the renowned Dadaist, as well as his sister Suzanne Duchamp, also a painter. Their maternal grandfather, Émile Frédéric Nicolle, a pr...