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  • Painter
· French · 1841–1870

Frédéric Bazille

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.

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Lived
1841–1870
Born
1841
Died
1870
Nationality
French
Roles
Painter

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Illustrated portrait of Claude Monet

Claude Monet

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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.

Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870): The Youth of Impressionism — Musée d'Orsay

Illustrated portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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  • Sculptor

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.

Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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An orange sun over a hazy blue-grey harbor, small boats in the foreground, painted in loose broken strokes

Art movement · 1874–1886

Impressionism

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.

Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870): The Youth of Impressionism — Musée d'Orsay; Impressionism: Art and Modernity — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Impressionism

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.

Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870): The Youth of Impressionism — Musée d'Orsay; Impressionism: Art and Modernity — The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Met · 1862–1870

Claude Monet

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.

Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870): The Youth of Impressionism — Musée d'Orsay

Met · 1862

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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.

Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art