Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les remparts d’Aigues-Mortes (The Ramparts at Aigues-Mortes) 1867 Oil on canvas, 46 x 75.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Although he never painted the coastline, Bazille was fascinated by the play of light and water, to which he devoted most…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Pêcheur au filet (Fisherman with a net) 1868 Oil on canvas, 134 x 83 cm Private collection
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Porte de la Reine à Aigues-Mortes (Porte de la Reine at Aigues-Mortes) 1867 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the late spring of 1867 Bazille visited the town of Aigues-Mortes near…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Vue de village (View of the Village) 1868 Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 85.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Produced in Montpellier on the family property of Mas Méric overlooking the Lez and the village of Castelnau, the Village View…
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) Le Petit Jardinier (The Little Gardener) c.1866–1867 Oil on canvas, 128 × 168.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil (Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 59.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the summer of 1873, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was staying with his friend Claude Monet…
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…