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
1948.3.44
Art Historical Context
**Les Demoiselles de la Mar** (1921) is a captivating drypoint print by French artist André Dunoyer de Segac, capturing the resilient spirit of post-World War I France. Created just three years after the Armistice, the work evokes the Marne River region—site of pivotal 1914 and 1918 battles—through its title, "The Girls of the Marne."onzac, a Realist painter and printmaker linked to the École de Paris, favored direct, observational depictions of everyday life, steering clear of avant-garde abstraction in favor of robust, earthy scenes that celebrated ordinary people amid national recovery. Th...
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...