Gaby in a Chaise Longue
Jacques Villon
1906
Medium
drypoint in black with pastel and spattering on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 53.2 x 41.2 cm (20 15/16 x 16 1/4 in.) sheet: 60.8 x 45.7 cm (23 15/16 x 18 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Fund
Accession Number
2005.79.4
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...