Small Farm, Saint-Tropez (Petite ferme a Saint-Tropez)
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etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Frank Crowninshield Collection
Accession Number
1948.3.153
Art Historical Context
In the sun-drenched landscapes of Provence, André Dunoyer de Segonz captured the simple beauty of rural France in his 1937 etching *Small Farm, Saint-Tropez (Petite ferme a Saintropez)*. A leading figure of the É de Paris, Segonzac (1884–1974) blended realist precision with a lively, almost impressionistic touch, drawing from his as a World War I veteran and lifelong observer of the French countryside. This print, housed in the National Gallery of's Frank Crowninshield, evokes the interwar era's nostalgia for pastoral tranquility amid Europe's gathering storms. Rendered in etching—a meticulou...
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...