La Nouvelle Parisienne (24)
1902/1903
Medium
color softground etching, drypoint, and aquatint printed from two plates on cream wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 46.3 x 33.9 cm (18 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.) sheet: 64.1 x 49.3 cm (25 1/4 x 19 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.182
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...