Minne in a Rocking Chair
c. 1907
Medium
drypoint with aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 29.9 x 39.8 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.) sheet: 45 x 52.7 cm (17 11/16 x 20 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Margaret Mellon Hitchcock Fund
Accession Number
2000.121.1.a
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...