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Frédéric Bazille
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Frédéric Bazille, Self-portrait, 1865–1866, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
Born
Jean Frédéric Bazille

(1841-12-06)6 December 1841
Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Died 28 November 1870(1870-11-28) (aged 28)
Beaune-la-Rolande, France
Nationality French
Known for Painting
Movement Impressionism

Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.

Life and work

Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, into a wealthy wine merchant Protestant family. Bazille grew up in the Le Domaine de Méric, a wine-producing estate in Castelnau-le-Lez, near Montpellier, owned by his family. He became interested in painting after seeing some works of Eugène Delacroix. His family agreed to let him study painting, but only if he also studied medicine.

Bazille began studying medicine in 1859, and moved to Paris in 1862 to continue his studies. There he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, was drawn to Impressionist painting, and began taking classes in Charles Gleyre's studio. After failing his medical exam in 1864, he began painting full-time. His close friends included Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Édouard Manet. Bazille was generous with his wealth and helped support his less fortunate associates by giving them space in his studio and materials to use.

Bazille was just twenty-three years old when he painted several of his best-known works, including The Pink Dress (c. 1864, Musée d'Orsay, Paris). This painting combines a portrait-like depiction of Bazille's cousin, Thérèse des Hours, who is seen from behind—and the sunlit landscape at which she gazes. His best-known painting is Family Reunion of 1867–1868 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).

Frédéric Bazille joined a Zouave regiment in August 1870, a month after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. On November 28 of that year, he was with his unit at the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande when, his officer having been injured, he took command and led an assault on the German position. He was hit twice in the failed attack and died on the battlefield at the age of twenty-eight. His father travelled to the battlefield a few days later to take his body back for burial at Montpellier over a week later.

Main works

Main page: List of paintings by Frédéric Bazille
  • La robe rose, (1864) – 147 x 110 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Studio on Rue Furstenberg, (1865) – 80 x 65 cm, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
  • Aigues-Mortes, (1867) – 46 x 55 cm, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
  • Self-portrait, (1865) – 109 x72 cm, Art Institute of Chicago
  • Family Reunion, (1867) – 152 x 230 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Le Pécheur à l'épervier, (1868) – 134 x 83 cm, Fondation Rau pour le tiers-monde, Zürich
  • View of the Village, (1868) – 130 x 89 cm, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
  • Scène d'été, (1869) – 158 x 158 cm, Cambridge, Harvard University
  • La Toilette, (1870) – 132 x 127 cm., Musée Fabre, Montpellier
  • L'Atelier de la rue Condamine, (1870) – 98 x 128.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  • Paysage au bord du Lez, (1870) – 137.8 x 202.5 cm, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis

Gallery

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Frédéric Bazille
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille painting The Heron
  • Bazille, Frédéric - Self Portrait

    Self Portrait, unknown date

  • Frédéric Bazille Study of Trees

    Study of Trees, 1863

  • Frédéric Bazille - The Pink Dress - Google Art Project

    The Pink Dress (View of Castelnau-le-Lez, Hérault), 1864, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay

  • Bazille, Frédéric - Chailly

    Chailly, 1865, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

  • Bazille Sutdio in the rue de Furstenberg

    Studio on Rue Furstenberg, 1865, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

  • Jean Frédéric Bazille - Little Italian Street Singer 1866

    Little Italian Street Singer, 1866

  • Frédéric Bazille - The Little Gardener - Google Art Project

    Le Petit Jardinier (The Little Gardener), c. 1866–67, oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  • Frédéric Bazille - Nature morte avec du poisson

    Nature morte avec du poisson, Still life with fish, c. 1866–67

  • Renoir by Bazille

    Portrait of Renoir, 1867, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay

  • Réunion de famille - Frédéric Bazille - musée d'Orsay RF 2749

    The Family Reunion, c. 1867, Musée d'Orsay

  • Bazille-Nature morte au héron

    Nature morte au héron, 1867

  • Jean Frédéric Bazille - Etude pour une vendange (left) 1868

    Etude pour une vendange, 1868

  • Bazille, Frédéric ~ View of the Village, 1868

    View of the Village, 1868, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

  • Bazille, Frédéric - Portrait of Alphonse Tissie

    Portrait of Alphonse Tissie, 1868, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

  • Bazille, Frederic — Flowers — 1868

    Flowers, 1868

  • Frédéric Bazille - Portrait de Paul Verlaine comme une Troubadour

    Portrait of Paul Verlaine, 1868, Dallas Museum of Art

  • Bazille, Frédéric ~ Summer Scene, 1869, Oil on canvas Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Scène d'été, 1869, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Bazille, Frédéric - Portrait of Edmond Maitre

    Portrait of Edmond Maître, 1869

  • Frédéric Bazille, Young Woman with Peonies, 1870, NGA 61356

    Black Woman with Peonies, 1870, National Gallery of Art

  • Frederic Bazille Paysage au bord du Lez

    Paysage au bord du Lez, 1870, oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

See also

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