Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les lauriers roses (The Terrace at Méric) 1867 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 91.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Castelnau-le-Lez (France) | Des Hours, Thérèse
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Mauresque (Woman in a Moorish Costume) 1869 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 59 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Lise Tréhot, Renoir’s first mistress, model, and muse, is here depicted with quiet eroticism by that artist’s friend and colleague, Bazille.…
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) 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) 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…
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…
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…