Minne étendue dans un rocking-chair (Minne Reclining in a Rocking Chair)
Jacques Villon
1907
Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.51 × 22.54 cm (6 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 20.64 × 28.26 cm (8 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund
Accession Number
2016.74.1
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...