Les peintres (Whitewashing the Walls)
1923 - 1927 (published 1948)
Medium
etching and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 28.9 × 23 cm (11 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.) sheet: 37.4 × 27.2 cm (14 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Donald Stone
Accession Number
2022.40.68
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marc Chagall · 1887–1985
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...