La Parisienne (11)
1902
Medium
color softground etching, drypoint, aquatint, and embossing on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 45 x 33.9 cm (17 11/16 x 13 3/8 in.) sheet: 60.5 x 49.1 cm (23 13/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef
Accession Number
1999.53.1
Art Historical Context
Jacques Villon's *La Parisienne (11, created in 1902, the elegance of Parisian life during the Belle Époque. Villon, a pioneering French printmaker and brother to artists Marcel Duchamp and Raymondamp-Villon, was for his innovative color prints that celebrated urban sophistication. This work likely depicts a stylish Parisian woman, embodying the fashionable allure of fin-de-siècle France, where posters and prints became vibrant mediums for modern culture. The artwork showcases Villon's mastery of complex intaglio techniques: color softground etching for fluid lines mimicking pencil sketches, ...
About the Artist
Jacques Villon
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...