Composition
c. 1946
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photo-etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.86 × 9.05 cm (5 1/16 × 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 27.31 × 21.75 cm (10 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Linda Crocker Simmons in memory of Robert Hilton Simmons, Sr.)
Accession Number
2015.19.3249
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...