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1841 - 1870 • French • Painter • Impressionist Circle
"I am completely alone in the country. My cousins and my brother are at the resort; my father and mother are living in town. This solitude pleases me enormously, it makes me work a lot, and read a lot." - Jean Frederic Bazille
The comment above was written in a letter to a friend shortly before Bazille left to join a French infantry unit, the Third Regiment of Zouaves, on August 16, 1870. While enjoying his solitude at that time, he was by no means a solitary type. On the contrary, he was a great and generous friend of first MONET, then RENOIR, both of whom he helped with money and lodgings. Bazille studied medicine and art, and it was in his drawing class in Paris (under GLEYRE) that he met Monet. In 1864 he failed to pass the medical examinations and devoted himself to painting. He not only shared his studio with his friends, but he also painted it, and them: The Studio in the rue la Condamine (1870). MANET, Renoir, SISLEY, and a figure who may be Monet are in the picture. Renoir, in turn, painted Bazille painting dead birds-Le Heron (1867). (Sisley painted the same dead birds in a STILL LIFE.) With a more conservative style than that of his friends, Bazille's range was wide, from great bowls of flowers to erotically charged scenes of men sporting around a pool of water, standing, reclining, and wrestling in dappled light: Summer Scene, Bathers (1869). He has captured the tension of how men interact without looking at one another, in the same terms, and resulting in the same mood, as Thomas EAKINs's famous Swimming (1885). When Bazille wrote the letter quoted from above, he was working on a large painting, more than 6 1/ 2 feet long: Landscape (1870) is a picture of sparse trees and dry ground. There has been speculation that Bazille planned to fill this landscape with figures, yet that seems unlikely, for each tree is individualized, almost anthropomorphized, as if to take the roles played by the men in Summer Scene. Bazille's final intention in Landscape remains unknown; he died in combat in the Franco-Prussian War on November 28, 1870.
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