“I have almost finished a large landscape”

— Frédéric Bazille

painting ' Landscape by the Lez River
[around Montpellier https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Bazille_Paysage_au_bord_du_Lez.jpg.. ..I am completely alone on the country; my cousins and my brother are at the resort. My father and mother are living in town; this solitude pleases me enormously; it makes me work a lot and read a lot.
In a letter to fr:Edmond Maitre, 2 August 1870; as quoted in Impressionnism, Gary Tinterow, Henri Loyrette; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, p. 338
this work is Bazille's last painting and largest known landscape; he started it c. June 1870 and finished it 2 August, just before he left 16 August 1870, to join the third regiment of Zouaves; he died soon
1866 - 1870

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French painter 1841–1870

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