#Frédéric Bazille

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Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) "Village view" (1868) Oil on canvas Impressionism

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Frédéric Bazille, La Toilette, 1869

La Toilette depicts a rather traditional subject matter: the orientalist scene, perhaps as a way of appealing to a well known judge at the Academy who specialized in such subjects. While painting it, Bazille had excitedly written to his mother that he had found the most "ravishing model" but lamented that she was "ruinously expensive." It is believed that the woman on the right was one of Pierre August Renoir's mistresses, Lise Tréhot. The two had become friends after Tréhot modeled for Bazille in a previous picture.

Though it is now held by the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, Bazille painted La Toilette to be displayed at the Paris Salon of 1870, where the greatest art fair of the Western world would be held: the Académie des Beaux-Arts. If Bazille could land a spot exhibited there, his reputation would cemented in French art history as a master painter. However, the work would be rejected by the jury and in his shame, Bazille would never display it publicly.

This is one of the final pictures produced by Bazille before his untimely death in the Franco-Prussian War. Bravely taking command of the regiment after the injuring of his officer, Bazille was fatally hit with two bullets as he charged through enemy lines; he was killed right then and there on the battlefield. He was 28 years old.

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Frédéric Bazille, Young Woman with Peonies (1870)

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Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1867) by Frédéric Bazille

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Frédéric Bazille - Family Reunion (1870)

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Frédéric Bazille, Esquisse pour Ruth et Booz, 1870

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Frédéric Bazille

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Frédéric Bazille, Autoportrait à la palette, 1865-66.

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Frédéric Bazille (French,1841-1870)

Young Woman with Peonies, 1870

oil on canvas

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Frédéric Bazille

(vía Frédéric Bazille - Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir)

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Frédéric Bazille (French, 1841-1870)

La Robe rose

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Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) "Young Woman with Peonies" (1870) Oil on canvas Impressionism Located in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, United States

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Frédéric Bazille, Portrait of Paul Verlaine, 1868

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Young Woman with Peonies, C. 1870

Frédéric Bazille

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Frédéric Bazille - Nu allongé de dos (1864)