Vitebsk, the Old Man Over the Village
Marc Chagall
1909–1919
- Medium
- Black fiber-tipped pen and brush and black ink, with white gouache, over graphite, on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 19.6 cm (9 13/16 × 7 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Written in Hebrew above the snowy sky is the name of the city of Vitebsk, Marc Chagall’s birthplace. Often present in Chagall’s cityscapes is the image of the “wandering Jew,” carrying his cane and a sack of belongings on his back. Produced when Chagall was in Paris, this drawing can be seen as an image of the artist metaphorically carrying his home with him.
