Shop art print and framed art L'ambulance improvisée (Monet blessé) by Frédéric Bazille

The Improvised Field Hospital (French - L'ambulance improvisée) or Monet after His Accident at the Inn of Chailly is an 1865 painting by the French painter Frédéric Bazille. It shows Claude Monet in bed recovering from a leg injury he had sustained in summer 1865, in Chailly-en-Bière, small village just on the outskirts of the forest of Fontainebleau. The work has been in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris since 1986. The Musée d'Orsay notes of the painting, Bazille, whose work falls between Courbet's Realism and a nascent Impressionism, renders the event in every detail. On the untidy bed one can clearly see the red, inflamed wound on Monet's shin, while his face expresses his despondency at being immobilised in this way. The intimacy of the scene demonstrates the bonds of friendship between the two [...]

 

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

 

« L'ambulance improvisée (Monet blessé) » is kept at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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