#Basille 1870 “Young Woman with Peonies” by FrédéricBasille #mood#flowers
Flower painting experienced a major revival under the Second Empire. Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Monet, and Renoir turned their hand to this commercial, middle-class genre with relish.
Bazille was attracted to the subject as he had studied many species in the botanical gardens adjacent to the Medical Faculty in Montpellier, and in the greenhouse at Méric in particular.
In pictures painted for the Salon or as presents for their circle of acquaintances, Bazille and his friends drew on old models but ignored the symbolism of flowers and the moral lessons traditionally associated with the genre.
What remained was the pleasure of painting studies from nature and using bold combinations of colour prompted by these cheerful bouquets.
Frédéric Bazille
Jeune femme aux pivoines
© Musée Fabre de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole - photographie Frédéric Jaulmes
Bazille’s two versions of his Young Woman with Peonies , with flowers and a black model reminiscent of certain paintings by Manet, combine the still life genre with figure painting.
Painted in the spring of 1870, before the artist returned to Montpellier for the last time, these pictures are striking not only on account of their differences, but also due to the consummate technical mastery which Bazille has now achieved.
They demonstrate his predilection for serene figures absorbed in an activity or, by contrast, looking the spectator fearlessly in the eye.
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