Frédéric Bazille at his Easel

Painting by Auguste Renoir

Frédéric Bazille at his Easel is an 1867 oil-on-canvas painting by Auguste Renoir, produced in response to Frédéric Bazille's own 1867 portrait of Renoir. It is owned by the Musée d'Orsay , which deposited it in 2006 at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, Bazille's birthplace.

The painting shows Bazille working on his still-life of a heron, which is also in the Musée Fabre.

Gallery

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  Bazille's portrait of Renoir, 1867.
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  Bazille's version of the heron, 1867

See also

• List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

References

External links

• Catalogue entry, Musée d'Orsay

Bibliography

• (in French) Francesca Castellani (trad. Marie-Christine Gamberini), Renoir : sa vie, son œuvre [« Renoir »], Paris, Gründ, 1996, 272 p. (ISBN 978-2-7000-2068-7).
• (in French) Anne Distel, Renoir : « Il faut embellir », Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Arts » (nº 177), 2009, 175 p. (ISBN 978-2-0704-0243-4).r