By Jacques Villon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Manege rue Caulaincourt ou Le Petit Manege Aux Chevaux De Bois" is an original etching and aquatint signed by Jacques Villon. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This is an artist proof in brown & black on arches paper. This piece depicts a number of figures on a horse-drawn carousel going through the street.
21 7/8" x 28 1/2" art
29 1/4" x 33 1/2" frame
Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963)
French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon; soon afterwards this new surname was combined with the family name by Raymond. Marcel Duchamp and their sister Suzanne Duchamp...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Jacques Villon Prints and Multiples
MaterialsEtching, Aquatint