Saint-Jeannet
Raoul Dufy
1910
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 80.7 x 100 cm (31 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.) framed: 109.8 x 128.9 x 8.8 cm (43 1/4 x 50 3/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.143
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...