Children in the Forest at Chaville (Bois de Chaville, les gosses)
Medium
etching (and drypoint?)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Frank Crowninshield Collection
Accession Number
1948.3.76
Art Historical Context
**Children in the Forest at Chaville (Bois de Chaville, les gosses)** *André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 1924, etching (and drypoint?), National Gallery of Art, Frank Crowninshield Collection* Step into the sun-dappled woods of Bois de Chaville, just outside Paris, where André Dunoyer de Segonzac captures the joyful abandon of children at play in this 1924 etching. Part of the interwar "Retour à l'ordre" movement, Segonzac—a WWI veteran and master draughtsman—rejects avant-garde abstraction for a robust realism inspired by Impressionism and classical traditions. His lively scenes of everyday Frenc...
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...