It may have been an inspiration for Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole (1885), as Eakins was in Paris in 1870 and could have seen Bazille's painting. Like his earlier painting Réunion de famille (1850), Scène d'été captured friends and family members in the outdoors and was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1870. Bazille achieved the look he wanted for the painting by first drawing the human figures in his Paris studio and then transporting the drawings to the outdoor setting. The impressionist painting depicts young men dressed in swimsuits having a leisurely day along the banks of Lez river near Montpellier. Scène d'été, or Summer Scene, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Frédéric Bazille, completed in 1869, a year before his death in 1870, and now in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born into a notable family in Montpellier, Bazille moved to Paris in 1862 to study medicine, before turning to painting. Blonde Woman with Bare Breasts (c.Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.Avoiding anecdotal specificity, the woman in the National Gallery painting is posed as a vendor extending a clutch of peonies chosen from her basket laden with seasonal blooms. The Rue Mosnier Dressed with Flags (1878) Early in the summer of 1870, before the outbreak of war, Bazille painted two similar works depicting a black woman with a lush array of flowers.Portrait of Marguerite de Conflans (c.Claude Monet Painting in his Studio (1874).Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (1872).Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge (1870).Departure of the Folkestone Steamer (1869).The Port of Boulogne by Moonlight (1868).The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1867).The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama (1864).91,5 cm Object details Inscription (s) S.D.b.d. Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Manet (1860) Frdric Bazille Date en 1867 Accession number RF 2448 Description huile sur toile Dimensions H.The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (c.1908–1914).Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1911).
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