Frédéric Bazille Art
View of the Village-1868
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Queens Gate at Aigues Mortes. Jean Frédéric Bazille Art Gallery.
Jean Frédéric Bazille Art Gallery
Painting: Queens Gate at Aigues Mortes-1867
Portrait of Renoir. The Art of Jean Frédéric Bazille.
Jean Frédéric Bazille Art Gallery
Portrait of Renoir-1867
Landscape at Chailly. The Art of Jean Frédéric Bazille.
The Art of Frédéric Bazille
Painting: Landscape at Chailly
The Art of Frédéric Bazille: Grape Picker in a Cap
Frédéric Bazille Online Art Gallery
Grape Picker in a Cap
Frédéric Bazille Art Gallery: African Woman with Peonies
Frédéric Bazille Art Gallery
African Woman with Peonies-1870
Frédéric Bazille
Frédéric Bazille
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 Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.
Frédéric Bazille Art
Frédéric Bazille Biography
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 (ca. 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.
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