Chess Board
Jacques Villon
1920
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 20.1 x 16 cm (7 15/16 x 6 5/16 in.) sheet: 40.9 x 30.6 cm (16 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Aaron I. Fleischman
Accession Number
2001.52.1
About the Artist
Jacques Villon
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...