The Child and the Schoolmaster
1927/1930
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etching
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1952.8.124
Art Historical Context
Marc Chagall's *The and the Schoolmaster*1927/1930) is a delicate etching from the National Gallery of's Rosenwald Collection, in the CG-W Department as part of a print portfolio. Created during Chagall's prolific Paris years after emigrating from Russia, this work captures his signature dreamlike style, blending elements of Cubism, Fauvism, and Jewish into whimsical, floating compositions. The title evokes tender scenes of childhood and mentorship, likely drawing from Chagall's nostalgic memories of his Vitebsk upbringing amid the cultural upheavals of post-Revolutionary Europe. Etching, Cha...
About the Artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall, born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Liozna near Vitebsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), grew up as the eldest of nine children in a devout Jewish family confined to the Pale of Settlement. His father worked as a herring merchant's porter, while his mother sold groceries from home, instilling in young Chagall a deep connection to Hasidic Judaism and Eastern European folklore a...