Le Petit Équilibriste (The Little Tightrope Walker)
Jacques Villon (born Gaston Emile Duchamp), French, 1875 - 1963
1914
Drypoint on laid paper
Edition of 50
Plate: 8 3/4 × 6 7/16 in. (22.2 × 16.4 cm)
Sheet: 15 11/16 × 11 5/8 in. (39.8 × 29.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2016.25.2
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: epreuve d'artiste; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Jacque Villon; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: l'Equilibriste
Course History
Art History 41.02, 20th Century Art: European 1900-1945, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2024
Art History 41.02, 20th Century Art: European 1900-1945, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2024
Art History 41.02, 20th Century Art: European 1900-1945, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2024
Provenance
Susan Schulman Printseller, New York, New York; sold to the present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Ginestet et Puillon (1979): E.287
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