La Parisienne (18)
Jacques Villon
1903
Medium
color drypoint, etching, and aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 45.4 x 33.4 cm (17 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.) sheet: 62.2 x 50.1 cm (24 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
1999.54.5
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...