La Parisienne (7), 1902

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Medium

color softground etching, etching, and aquatint printed from multiple plates with watercolor additions and graphite notations on cream wove paper [touched proof]

Dimensions

plate: 47.3 x 37.5 cm (18 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

sheet: 64.1 x 49.5 cm (25 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Ginestet/Pouillon 1979, no. E74

Accession Number

1979.17.1

Artists / Makers

Jacques Villon (artist) French, 1875 - 1963

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Inscription

lower right below plate mark in graphite: Jacques Villon; lower left below plate mark in graphite: Essai; artist's notations across bottom in graphite: gris vert / fauteuil au brun / vert (not deciphered) / gris vert / (not deciphered); by later hand (?), lower right in graphite: 38; across top in graphite: [2e?] planche - cheminée - bleu cobalt; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 6/2

Exhibition History

1986: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001, proof 3, p. 75.

2004: The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.

Bibliography

1950: Auberty, Jacqueline and Charles Pérussaux. Jacques Villon: Catalogue de son oeuvre gravé. Paris: Paul Prouté, 1950.

1979: Ginestet, Colette de and Catherine Pouillon. Jacques Villon: les estampes et les illustrations: catalogue raisonne. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1979.

2001: Brodie, Judith. "The Metamorphosis of Jacques Villon's 'La Parisienne'." In Peter Parshall et. al. The Unfinished Print. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: 71-82.