La Parisienne (6)
1902
Medium
softground etching, etching, and aquatint printed in brown on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 47 x 37.2 cm (18 1/2 x 14 5/8 in.) sheet: 63.6 x 49 cm (25 1/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2007.30.3
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...