The Dog and Her Friend
1927/1930
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etching and drypoint
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1952.8.130
Art Historical Context
**The Dog and Her Friend**, an enchanting etching and drypoint created by Marc Chagall around 1927/1930, captures the artist's signature dreamlike whimsy. Chagall, a Russian-French modernist associated with Surrealism and Cubism, often infused his works with floating figures, vibrant colors, and playful animals drawn from his Jewish-Russian folklore roots. This intimate scene likely evokes tenderness between a dog and her companion, reflecting Chagall's fascination with the magical in everyday life during his Paris years between the World Wars—a time of artistic experimentation amid personal a...
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...