The Greeting
1922/1923
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 48.7 x 35.4 cm (19 3/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard E. Pinkus
Accession Number
2000.45.4
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marc Chagall · 1887–1985
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...