The Church of Souain

The Church of Souain by Félix Vallotton

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 96 x 130 cm (37 13/16 x 51 3/16 in.) framed: 120 x 154.3 x 6.3 cm (47 1/4 x 60 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CMC

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Chester Dale Fund

Accession Number

1990.30.1

About the Artist

Félix Vallotton

Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, into a comfortable middle-class family, and moved to Paris in 1882 to enroll at the Académie Julian, where he studied under the portrait painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre and the history painter Gustave Boulanger. Paris would remain his home for the rest of his life, and he became a French citizen in 1900 following his marriage to the art ...

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