La Parisienne (7)
1902
Medium
color softground etching, etching, and aquatint printed from multiple plates with watercolor additions and graphite notations on cream wove paper [touched proof]
Dimensions
plate: 47.3 x 37.5 cm (18 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.) sheet: 64.1 x 49.5 cm (25 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1979.17.1
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...