Nevers in Paris (Nevers à Paris)
Jacques Villon
1904
Medium
7-color aquatint and drypoint on BFK Rives paper
Dimensions
plate: 34.4 x 45.4 cm (13 9/16 x 17 7/8 in.) sheet: 45.7 x 64 cm (18 x 25 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.184
About the Artist
Jacques Villon
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...