Two Elegant Ladies, One Lighting a Cigarette

1900

Jacques Villon

Artist, French, 1875 - 1963

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and black ink, with spatter, and watercolor, over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.8 x 38 cm (19 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.109.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Belgium. C. G. Boerner, Inc., New York; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 113.

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 28.

Bibliography

2007

  • C. G. Boerner. Fin de Siècle: Late Nineteenth-Century Drawings from Belgium, France, and Italy. New York, 2007: 6.

Inscriptions

lower left in black ink: Jacques Villon / 00; lower center in graphite: aylar(?) or blanc / vue cave SZ 4 12/ mathematical calculations; PP blanc [not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q64580127

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