Spanish Dancer (Danseuse Espagnole)
1899
Medium
color aquatint and drypoint touched with graphite (on the lady's hat left of the dancer) on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 50.7 x 35.7 cm (19 15/16 x 14 1/16 in.) sheet: 61.2 x 44.2 cm (24 1/8 x 17 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1995.47.84
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...