Shop art print and framed art La robe rose ou Vue de Castelnau le Lez (Herault) by Frédéric Bazille

The Pink Dress is a painting by the Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille, painted in 1864. The painter was 23 at the time. The painting depicts the painter's cousin, Thérèse des Hours, sitting on the stone ledge bordering the terrace of the family estate, Domaine de Méric, in Montpellier, opposite the village of Castelnau-le-Lez, in the Hérault department. The young girl is shown wearing a black apron over a simple pink and silver-grey striped dress, with her back turned slightly to the viewer. To emphasise the village in the background that the young girl is contemplating, Frédéric Bazille used a technique dear to the Barbizon school by framing this background, illuminated by the southern sun, with dark trees that direct the viewer's gaze towards it. The dimensions of the canvas, now in the Musée d'Orsay, are 147 cm high and 110 cm wide. The Domaine de Méric in Montpellier, a family property, was also used as a backdrop for his paintings Reunion de famille (1867) and Vue de village (1868). The Domaine de Méric now belongs to the city of [...]

 

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

 

« La robe rose ou Vue de Castelnau le Lez (Herault) » is kept at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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