Shop art print and framed art L'Atelier de Bazille, 9 rue de la Condamine à Paris by Frédéric Bazille

L'Atelier de Bazille (or L'Atelier de la rue de La Condamine) is an 1870 painting by the French Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille. The painting shows the artist surrounded by a few friends in one of his studios. This is the studio at number 9 rue La Condamine. The friends shown are the painters Édouard Manet and Pierre Auguste Renoir. On the right, the musician Edmond Maître is playing the piano. On the left, Émile Zola is the person on the staircase, conversing with Auguste Renoir , seated on a table under the same staircase. The format of this canvas is relatively large: 0.98 m high and just over 1.28 m wide. It was painted in the early months of 1870. Through the people represented in this painting and the paintings also represented, such as those refused at the Salon de peinture et de sculpture (an annual exhibition of painters that requires paintings to be approved by the Académie des Beaux-Arts) (such as La Toilette, placed above the sofa and Le pêcheur à l'épervier in the top left-hand corner), but also through the light that invades the studio, this painting is in itself a manifesto for the Impressionist movement, which was then in its infancy. Frédéric Bazille died in November 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war. The painting was kept in the collection of Frédéric Bazille's brother, Marc Bazille. In 1924, he bequeathed it to the French state in his will. It has hung in various museums, and finally at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris since 1986 (the year this [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« L'Atelier de Bazille, 9 rue de la Condamine à Paris » is kept at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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