Bazille, Frédéric. Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978
Frédéric Bazille
Born: Montpellier, 6 December 1841
Died: Beaune-la-Rolande, 28 November 1870
Nationality: French
Died: Beaune-la-Rolande, 28 November 1870
Nationality: French
Background:
bourgeois, politician father
Studies:
with Charles Gleyre (1862, Paris)
Career:
1862 – Bazille meets Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley in Gleyre’s studio
1863 – travels to Fontainebleau with Monet
1864 – travels in Normandy with Monet and to Honfleur with Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind
1870 – outbreak of Franco-Prussian War; Bazille enlists in a Zouave regiment and is killed in action
Travels:
Fontainebleau (1863); Normandy (1864); Honfleur (1864); Chailly (1865)
Important Artworks:
The Pink Dress, 1864 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
Bazille’s Studio in the Rue de la Condamine, 1870 (Musée d’Orsay; includes portraits of Bazille, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Zacharie Astruc, Emile Zola and Maître Edmond)
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