July 14 in Le Havre
Raoul Dufy
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
About the Artist
Raoul Dufy
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...