La Parisienne (4)
1902
Medium
color softground etching and aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 47.4 x 37.5 cm (18 11/16 x 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 62.9 x 49.4 cm (24 3/4 x 19 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Edward E. MacCrone Fund
Accession Number
1999.93.2
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...