La Parisienne (small plate)
Jacques Villon
1904
Medium
drypoint with aquatint, printed in black
Dimensions
plate: 23.5 x 16.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.) sheet: 28 x 19.4 cm (11 x 7 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund
Accession Number
2010.94.1
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...