Bathers
Artist: Jean Bazille
Year Composed: 1869
Artistic Movement: Impressionist
Nationality: France
Floor Found in Château: Unknown Location
Year Composed: 1869
Artistic Movement: Impressionist
Nationality: France
Floor Found in Château: Unknown Location
About the Artwork
Also known as Summer Scene or Scène d'été, Jean Frédéric Bazille's Bathers shows a group of young men enjoying a day near the banks of a watering hole, which is thought to be the Lez River in Montpellier, France. Bazille adds to the playful and peaceful nature of the scene, not only through the expression on the men's faces, but also through the soft sunlight and shadows dancing throughout the landscape.
About the Artist
Known as Jean Frédéric Bazille, this French Impressionist painter composed an abundance of figure paintings, typically where the backdrop and his figures were painted en plein air - which means they were set in the outdoors rather than either being composed within an interior space or the landscape was painted through the artist's own imagination. With this style, which can be seen within Bazille's The Pink Dress (1864), The Little Gardener (1867), and The Family Reunion (1867), he was able to realistically render the shadows and sunlight as they were integrated within the overall scene.
About the Movement
Bathers was composed in the Impressionist Age of art. Impressionism was characterized by extremely loose brushstrokes that were visible throughout the entire painting. This 19th-Century (or 1800s) art movement took landscapes, figures, and objects and incorporated both movement and emotion. Impressionism, in a matter of style, was almost the blending between Cubism and Baroque art; that dramatic and emotional appeal of the Baroque mixed with the inclusion of motion and the passing of time of Cubism. Some of the most famous Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.
Location of Original Work of Art: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Also known as Summer Scene or Scène d'été, Jean Frédéric Bazille's Bathers shows a group of young men enjoying a day near the banks of a watering hole, which is thought to be the Lez River in Montpellier, France. Bazille adds to the playful and peaceful nature of the scene, not only through the expression on the men's faces, but also through the soft sunlight and shadows dancing throughout the landscape.
About the Artist
Known as Jean Frédéric Bazille, this French Impressionist painter composed an abundance of figure paintings, typically where the backdrop and his figures were painted en plein air - which means they were set in the outdoors rather than either being composed within an interior space or the landscape was painted through the artist's own imagination. With this style, which can be seen within Bazille's The Pink Dress (1864), The Little Gardener (1867), and The Family Reunion (1867), he was able to realistically render the shadows and sunlight as they were integrated within the overall scene.
About the Movement
Bathers was composed in the Impressionist Age of art. Impressionism was characterized by extremely loose brushstrokes that were visible throughout the entire painting. This 19th-Century (or 1800s) art movement took landscapes, figures, and objects and incorporated both movement and emotion. Impressionism, in a matter of style, was almost the blending between Cubism and Baroque art; that dramatic and emotional appeal of the Baroque mixed with the inclusion of motion and the passing of time of Cubism. Some of the most famous Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.
Location of Original Work of Art: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America