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
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...