Les femmes de Thrace (The Women of Thrace)
Jacques Villon
1907
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 22 × 16.7 cm (8 11/16 × 6 9/16 in.) sheet: 26.4 × 21.4 cm (10 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund
Accession Number
2015.204.1
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...