Frédéric Bazille

Self-Portrait. 1865–1866. Frédéric Bazille. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago.

Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6 1841–November 28 1870) was a French Impressionist painter best known for his depiction of figures.

Born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, into a middle-class Protestant family, Bazille 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. He moved to Paris in 1862 to continue his studies. There he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 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. Born to a wealthy family, Bazille helped support some of these artists by giving them space in his studio and materials to use.

Bazille was just twenty-three years old when he painted several famous works, including The Pink Dress. His best known painting is Family Reunion (1867–1868).

Frédéric Bazille died in 1870 at the age of twenty-nine. He was killed in action in Beaune-la-Rolande, Loiret during the Franco-Prussian War.

Main works

• La Robe rose, (1864) - 147 x 110 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
• Atelier de la rue Furstenberg, - 80 x 65 cm, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
• Aigues-Mortes, - 46 x 55 cm, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
• Autportrait, (1865) - 109x72 cm, The Art Institute, Chicago
• Réunion de Famille, (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
• Vue de 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

Bazille's Studio; 9 rue de la Condamine, 1870.	Le Petit Jardinier (The Little Gardener), c1866-67 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	Paysage au bord du Lez 1870, Oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts	Portrait of Renoir, 1867, oil on canvas
Summer Scene, 1869, Oil on canvas Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts	The Pink Dress (View of Castelnau-le-Lez, Hérault), 1864, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay in Paris	View of the Village, 1868	La Toilette
Self Portrait	Studio in the rue de Furstenberg	View of the Village	Family Reunion

External links

• WetCanvas bio

Impressionists
Original Impressionists	Frédéric Bazille · Eugène Boudin · Gustave Caillebotte · Mary Cassatt · Paul Cézanne · Edgar Degas · Armand Guillaumin · Édouard Manet · Claude Monet · Berthe Morisot · Camille Pissarro · Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Alfred Sisley
The American Impressionists	Frederick Carl Frieseke · Childe Hassam · Willard Metcalf · Lilla Cabot Perry · Theodore Robinson · John Henry Twachtman · J. Alden Weir
Other impressionists	Lovis Corinth · Max Liebermann · Max Slevogt · Konstantin Korovin · Valentin Serov · Francisco Oller y Cestero · Laura Muntz Lyall · Władysław Podkowiński · Nazmi Ziya Güran · Chafik Charobim
Impressionism in other art forms	Impressionist music · Impressionism (literature) · French Impressionist Cinema

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