Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) La Toilette 1870 Oil on canvas, 130 x 128 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Inspired by the orientalist imagination as well as the biblical universe, the painting depicts a modern Bathsheba being prepared by two servants for nuptial union. This…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Paysage au bord du Lez 1870 Oil on canvas, 137.16 x 200.66 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In June 1870, Bazille informed his father “I have just about finished a large landscape (eclogue).” Two weeks later he…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Scène d’été / Les Baigneurs (Summer Scene / Bathers) 1869 Oil on canvas, 160 x 160.7 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge When this painting was first exhibited at the Salon of 1870, critic and artist Zacharie Astruc wrote of Bazille,…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’Atelier de la rue Condamine (Bazille’s Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine) 1870 Oil on canvas 98 x 128 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris L’Atelier de la rue Condamine: the figures The Rue Condamine today. Born into a notable family…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Le Petit Jardinier (The Little Gardener) c.1866–1867 Oil on canvas, 128 × 168.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Portrait de Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1867 Oil on canvas, 61.2 x 50 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nini dans le jardin (Nini in the Garden) 1876 Oil on canvas, 61.9 x 50.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir‘s model, Nini Lopez, sits in the large garden adjacent to the artist’s studio at 12 rue…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Frédéric Bazille peignant le héron (Frédéric Bazille painting the heron) 1867 Oil on canvas, 105 x 75.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Deposited by the Musée d’Orsay, 2006 (inv. D2006.3.5) Beyond being a simple portrait, this painting conceals the presence…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Amour Fraternel (Fraternal Love, Virgin and Child with Young Saint John) 1851 Oil on canvas, 147 x 113.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bouguereau enjoyed a lifetime of official favor and commercial success and carried the tradition of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Un bar aux Folies Bergère (A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres) 1882 Oil on canvas, 96 x 130 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This celebrated work is Édouard Manet’s last major painting, completed a year before he died, and exhibited in 1882 at…