La petite ville (The Town)
Marc Chagall
1923 - 1927 (published 1948)
Medium
etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.9 × 28.5 cm (8 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.) sheet: 27.9 × 37.8 cm (11 × 14 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Donald Stone
Accession Number
2022.40.67
About the Artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall, born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Liozna near Vitebsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), grew up as the eldest of nine children in a devout Jewish family confined to the Pale of Settlement. His father worked as a herring merchant's porter, while his mother sold groceries from home, instilling in young Chagall a deep connection to Hasidic Judaism and Eastern European folklore a...