The movement's lost founder — met Monet, Renoir, and Sisley in Gleyre's studio in 1862 and was killed in the Franco-Prussian War four years before the first exhibition.
Painting · Modern life in Paris
A crowd stands and sits under chestnut trees in the Tuileries Gardens, waiting for one of the twice-weekly concerts given there. Édouard Manet put his friends and his own family into the throng and left most of the other faces as thick dabs of paint. Émile Zola, who saw it on show in 1863, counted perhaps a hundred people in it. The painting was Manet's first large picture of contemporary Paris, and it never went to the Salon.
Met · 1862–1870
Enrolled at Gleyre's studio in 1862, where he met Monet, Renoir, and Sisley. He was killed in action on 28 November 1870; the Orsay notes that not a single Bazille hung at the 1874 exhibition his friends went on to mount.
Met · 1862
Met as students in Gleyre's studio; Bazille, the one with money, shared his Paris studio with Renoir and painted his portrait in 1867 — Renoir at twenty-six, knees drawn up on a chair, now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Art movement · 1874–1886
As the movement's lost founder: the Orsay's retrospective calls him 'the youth of Impressionism.' He discussed an independent exhibition as early as 1867, per the Met, and died four years before it happened.
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As the movement's lost founder: the Orsay's retrospective calls him 'the youth of Impressionism.' He discussed an independent exhibition as early as 1867, per the Met, and died four years before it happened.
Met · 1862–1870
Enrolled at Gleyre's studio in 1862, where he met Monet, Renoir, and Sisley. He was killed in action on 28 November 1870; the Orsay notes that not a single Bazille hung at the 1874 exhibition his friends went on to mount.
Met · 1862
Met as students in Gleyre's studio; Bazille, the one with money, shared his Paris studio with Renoir and painted his portrait in 1867 — Renoir at twenty-six, knees drawn up on a chair, now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Depicted in · 1862
The National Gallery names Frédéric Bazille among the figures in the crowd, alongside Charles Baudelaire; Manet had met both at the salon of the hostess seated in the foreground.
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