The Hatpin (L'épingle à chapeau)
Jacques Villon
1909
Medium
drypoint in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 40 x 31.7 cm (15 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.) sheet: 45.5 x 36.4 cm (17 15/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1988.61.1
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...