Two Elegant Ladies, One Lighting a Cigarette
Jacques Villon
1900
Medium
brush and black ink, with spatter, and watercolor, over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 49.8 x 38 cm (19 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund
Accession Number
2007.109.1
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...