July 14 in Le Havre
1906
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 54.6 x 37.8 cm (21 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.) framed: 63.8 x 47.3 x 3.6 cm (25 1/8 x 18 5/8 x 1 7/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.13
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Raoul Dufy · 1877–1953
Raoul Dufy (1877–1953) was a French painter whose vivid, sunlit canvases became among the most recognizable expressions of joie de vivre in twentieth-century art. Born in Le Havre, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts there before moving to Paris, where he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and fell under the influence of the Impressionists. An early encounter with Henri M...