Engravings

Etching by Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-1894). Emile-Frédéric Nicolle was the grandfather of the famous cubist painter and engraver Jacques Villon, the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, the inventor of conceptual art Marcel and the painter Suzanne Duchamp. The Louvre's Chalcographie collection has several engraved plates by this painter-engraver, who produced his first etching in his twenty-fourth year. Nicolle was an attentive witness to the changes in his native city of Rouen. Indeed, as a member of the Société des Amis des Arts de Rouen, he drew and engraved the main buildings of Rouen