Summer Scene
Frédéric Bazille, 1869
bourgeois, politician father
with Charles Gleyre (1862, Paris)
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
Fontainebleau (1863); Normandy (1864); Honfleur (1864); Chailly (1865)
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)
Bazille, Frédéric. Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978
Daulte, François. Frédéric Bazille et les debuts de l’impressionnisme: catalogue raisonné
de l’oeuvre peint. Paris : Bibliothèque des arts, 1992 (in French)
Herbert, Robert. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946