Les Demoiselles de la Marne
Medium
drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Frank Crowninshield Collection
Accession Number
1948.3.43
Art Historical Context
**Les Demoiselles de lane**, a captivating drypoint etching by French artist André Dunoyer deonzac from 1921, graces the National Gallery of Art part of the Frank Crownshield Collection. Created just three years after World War I end, the title evokes the Marne River region—site of pivotal 1914 and 1918 battles—depicting graceful young women in a moment of poised elegance. Segonzac, a veteran of the trenches and a key figure in the É de Paris, infused his realist style with a lively, unpretentious vitality drawn from everyday life. Drypoint, Segonzac's favored printmaking technique here, invo...
About the Artist
André Dunoyer de Segonzac
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974) was a leading French painter, draughtsman, engraver, and illustrator, born on 6 July in Boussy-Saint-Antoine near Paris, where he spent much of his childhood alongside time in the city. Defying his parents' initial hopes for a military career at Saint-Cyr, he pursued art, enrolling in 1900 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a general student. He studied u...