La Parisienne (8)
1902
Medium
color softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and embossing on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 47.8 x 37.6 cm (18 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.) sheet: 56 x 44.8 cm (22 1/16 x 17 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Philip and Judith Benedict
Accession Number
1997.88.1
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...