Another Time: 1830 (Autre Temps: 1830) 1904

Jacques Villon made this color etching, *Another Time: 1830,* sometime around 1904, give or take. It’s a scene from a bygone era, rendered with a kind of delicate, wispy line that feels both nostalgic and modern at the same time. I imagine Villon, bent over the plate, carefully etching each line, almost like a memory slowly surfacing. The colors, soft pinks and greens, whisper of leisurely days in the park. There's a girl with a hoop, caught in a moment of youthful play, and I wonder if Villon was thinking about the fleeting nature of time itself. That continuous line looping into a circle seems important— the way that simple gesture keeps returning to its start. He’s not just showing us a scene, but maybe hinting at the cycles of history, the way we keep revisiting the past, trying to make sense of it all. It reminds me of the way artists are always in conversation with each other, pulling ideas from different eras.