La Seine à Billancourt
Datec. 1905 - 1910
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 20 1/8 × 29 1/4 inches (51.1 × 74.3 cm)
Framed: 28 1/4 × 37 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (71.8 × 95.6 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1910.3
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextBorn in Paris, Jean-François Raffaëlli worked as a singer and actor to earn a living while he studied art at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts. During the 1870s he met the artist Edgar Degas, under whose sponsorship Raffaëlli twice exhibited with the Impressionists. Yet paintings like La Seine à Billancourt, which depicts the industrial suburbs of Paris, are not representative of Impressionism in general. While the Impressionists frequently depicted middle-class leisure activities, such as boating, dancing, or picnicking, Raffaëlli was best known for images of the lives and surroundings of the disenfranchised poor.Subject MatterBoulogne-Billancourt, Seine River, France
