Gaby in a Chaise Longue
1906
Medium
drypoint with color aquatint with monotype printing, touched with pastel on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 53.2 x 41.2 cm (20 15/16 x 16 1/4 in.) sheet: 65.1 x 50 cm (25 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Paul Mellon Fund
Accession Number
2005.79.5
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...