Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Jeune femme aux pivoines (Young Woman with Peonies) 1870 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 75.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Holding a bunch of peonies in one hand, a woman with brown skin leans forward, toward us from…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les remparts d’Aigues-Mortes (The Ramparts at Aigues-Mortes) 1867 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington From a sandy beach, we look across a sun-drenched body of water enclosed by a long, sand-colored, crenelated wall…
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) 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…
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…
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…