BAZILLE, Jean-Frédéric
(b. 1841, Montpellier, d. 1870, Beaune-la-Rolande)

Family Gathering

1867
Oil on canvas, 152 x 230 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

This is perhaps the most famous painting by Bazille. It depicts a family in the shade on a terrace at Méric, near Montpellier in the south of France. The painting was accepted at the 1868 Salon. The picture, showing Bazille's parents and relations, conveys a sense of family and of social status, a particular lifestyle, and a fresh response to Nature and light; in painting it, Bazille was also out to convince his family of his ability as an artist.




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