Tag: shadow

Autoportrait (1865-1867)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Autoportrait (Self-Portrait with Detachable Collar) 1865–1867 Oil on canvas, 53.98 x 46.04 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis

L’ambulance improvisée (1865)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’ambulance improvisée (Improvised Field Hospital, Monet) 1865 Oil on canvas, 48 x 65 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris This painting of Claude Monet confined to bed with an injured leg, was painted in the summer of 1865. At the beginning…

L’Atelier de la Rue de Furstenberg (1865-1866)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) L’Atelier de la rue de Furstenberg (The Workshop on Rue de Furstenberg) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 81.20 x 65 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier In Paris, Bazille moved in 1865 to 6 rue de Furstenberg, above Delacroix‘s former workshop. In…

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 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…

Paysage au bord du Lez (1870)

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…

Scène d’été (1869)

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,…

L’Atelier de la rue Condamine (1870)

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…