Portrait of Renoir

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Renoir

Frédéric Bazille

Date
1867
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
France
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Frédéric Bazille painted this charming, poignant portrait of his close friend and fellow Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir at a time when he was sharing his studio with Renoir and Claude Monet. Although Bazille played an important role in the early development of Impressionism, he is not as well-known as his colleagues due to his early death at age 28 while serving in the French army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Born to a wealthy family in Montpellier, France, Bazille came to Paris to study medicine and provided crucial financial support to his friends Claude Monet and Pierre-August Renoir.

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