Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) La Négresse aux pivoines (African Woman with Peonies) 1870 Oil on canvas 60.50 x 75.40 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier
La Négresse aux pivoines (1870)
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Réunion de famille (1867-1868)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Réunion de famille (Family Reunion) 1867–1868 Oil on canvas 152 x 230 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Before his early death in battle during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, Frédéric Bazille was close to Renoir and Monet, particularly admiring their…
La robe rose (1864)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) La robe rose (The Pink Dress) 1864 Oil on canvas, 110 x 148 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Originally from Montpellier, Bazille moved to Paris in 1862 to continue studying medicine. While attending the university, he used to visit Gleyre’s…
La Toilette (1870)
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…
La loge (1874)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841–1919) La loge (The Theater Box) 1874 Oil on canvas, 80 x 63.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Pierre-Auguste Renoir showed La Loge (The Theatre Box) at the first Impressionist group exhibition in Paris in 1874. The painting was designed make an impact there.…
Romaine Lacaux (1864)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Romaine Lacaux 1864 Oil on fabric, 81.3 x 65 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting may be Renoir‘s earliest signed canvas. Its sensitive display of color and light communicates an ideal of delicate, youthful beauty. The luminous…
Les Fiancés (c.1868)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Fiancés, dit Le Ménage Sisley (A Couple) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 105 x 75 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne Probably we shall never establish beyond doubt the identity of the lady depicted in the painting. For a long…