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Self-Portrait
Provenance
Marc Bazille, brother of the artist, until at least 1910 [lent by him to Paris 1910]; by descent to his son, André Bazille, Montpellier, until at least 1932 [according to Poulain 1932]; by descent to his daughter, Mme Rachou-Bazille, Montpellier, by 1958 [lent by her to Montpellier 1958]. Sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 17, 1960, lot 54 as Frédéric Bazille à la palette, 1865. Wildenstein and Co., New York, by 1962; purchased by the Art Institute through funds from the Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Woods Endowment in memory of Mrs. Edward Harris Brewer, 1962.
Exhibition history
Paris, Sociéte du Salon d’Automne, Exposition rétrospective d’oeuvres de Frédéric Bazille, October 1–November 8, 1910, no. 13. Montpellier, Exposition Internationale de Montpellier, rétrospective Bazille, 1927, no. 18. Paris, Association des Étudiants Protestants, Frédéric Bazille 1841–1870, 1935, no. 5. Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Centenaire de Bazille, May–June 1941, no. 18. Paris, Wildenstein, Bazille: Exposition organisée au profit du Musée de Montpellier, June–Julys 1950, no. 16. Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Des Primitifs a Nicolas de Staël: Belles Peintures de collections privées de la region montpelliéraine, April 19–May 19, 1958, no. 3 Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Frédéric Bazille, October 13–31, 1959, no. 9. Art Institute of Chicago, Frederic Bazille and Early Impressionism, March 4–April 30, 1978, cat. 13. Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600–1900, July 8–September 11, 1978, cat. 17. Montpellier, France, Musee Fabre, Frédéric Bazille: Prophet of Impressionism, cat. 42, July 11-October 4, 1992; Brooklyn Museum, November 12, 1992–January 24, 1993; Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, February 14–April 25, 1993. Baltimore Museum of Art, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections, October 10, 1999–January 30, 2000, cat. 1; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, March 25–May 7, 2000; Cleveland Museum of Art, May 28–July 30, 2000. Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet, Frédéric Bazille, October 2, 2003–January 18, 2004, no. 8. Fort Worth, Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, no. 5. Montpellier, France, Musée Fabre, Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) and the Birth of Impressionism, June 25 - October 16, 2016, cat. 17; Musée d'Orsay, November 14, 2016-March 5, 2017; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, April 9-July 9, 2017. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, In the Picture - Artists' Portraits, February 14-August 30, 2020.
Publications
Gaston Poulain, Bazille et ses amis (Paris: Renaissance du Livre, 1932), p. 214, no. 17. Pierre du Colombier, “La place de Frédéric Bazille,” Candide (April 1935). François Daulte, Frédéric Bazille et son temps (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1952), p. 141, 170, no. 10, (ill.). Annual Report 1961–1962 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1962), p. 13. G. Wildenstein, “La Chronique des arts,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 61 (1963); supplement no. 1129, p.40, no. 155, fig. 155. John Maxon, “Bazille,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, 2 (1963), pp. 22–24 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Supplement (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), no page. John Maxon, “Some Recent Acquisitions,” Apollo 84, 55 (1966), p, 216, fig. 1. André Treves, “Après les peintres de la Seine et ses affluents: Les Ecoles de Fontainebleau, Le XIXe siècle,” Le Peintre no. 390 (October 1969), pp. 14 (ill.), 16–17. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1970), p. 79 (ill.); reprinted (London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1977). “Etcetera, news and views of the world of art,” Art Gallery 21, 3 (1978), p. 21 (ill.). Richard Fremantle, “Three Exhibitions in America,” Burlington Magazine 120 (1978), fig. 102. Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: 100 Masterpieces (Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1978), p. 87, no. 45. Douglas Druick, in Douglas Druick and Michel Hoog, Fantin-Latour, exh. cat. (Grand Palais, Paris, 1982), p. 206 under no. 73. Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists, 1800–1900 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 74–75 (ill.), 117. Pascal Bonafoux, The Impressionists: Portraits and Confidences (New York: Skira and Rizzoli, 1986), p. 48 (ill.). François Daulte, Frédéric Bazille et les débuts de l’impressionisme: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint (Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1992), pp. 134–35 (ill.), 157, no. 10 (ill.). François-Bernard Michel, Frédéric Michel: Réflexions sur la peinture, la médecine, le paysage et le portrait, les origines de l’Impressionisme, la vraie nature de Claude Monet, la mélancolie et la société provinciale (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1992), pp. 13–16. Valérie Bajou, Frédéric Bazille, 1841–1870 (La Calade, Aix-en-Provence: Edisud, 1993), pp. 67–68, fig. 28. Michel Schulman, Frédéric Bazille, 1841–1870: Catalogue raisonné (Paris: Éditions de l’Amateur and Éditions des Catalogues raisonnés, 1995), pp. 133–134, no. 20, fig. 20; 170 under no. 39; 186 under no. 47; 223 under no. 67. Dianne W. Pitman, Bazille: Purity, Pose, and Painting in the 1860s (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University, 1998), frontispiece (ill.), pp. 113, 248–49 n. 70. John House, “Impressionism and the Modern Portrait,” in Sona Johnson, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections, exh. cat. (Baltimore Museum of Art, 1999), p. 20. Art Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), p. 29 (ill.). Steven Platzman, Cézanne: The Self-Portraits (London: Thames & Hudson, 2001), pp. 38 (ill.), 41–42, 208 n. 39. Marianne Delafond and Caroline Genet-Bondeville, Frédéric Bazille, exh. cat. (Musée Marmottan, 2003), pp. 62, 67, 83, cat. 8. Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 20 (ill.), 33, cat. 5 (ill.); revised edition (Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2010). Kimberly A. Jones, "Self-Portrait with Palette," in Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) and the Birth of Impressionism, edited by Michel Hilaire and Paul Perrin, Montpellier, 2016, pp. 48-51, cat. 17, fig. 19. Marco Goldin, ed., Storie dell'Impressionismo: I grandi protagonist da Monet a Renoir da Van Gogh a Gauguin (Linea d’ombre, 2016), 19 (color ill.) Jason Ferado, "French Lessons for a New Republic: Shows Toasting Liberte, Egalite and the Pursuit of Decorating," New York Times, June 16, 2017, c15 (ill.)
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Frédéric Bazille (French, 1841-1870)
- Date
- 1865–66
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 108.9 × 71.1 cm (42 7/8 × 28 3/8 in.); Framed: 136.3 × 100.4 × 10.8 cm (53 5/8 × 39 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Woods in memory of Mrs. Edward Harris Brewer
- Accession no.
- 1962.336
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