Landscape at Chailly
Frédéric Bazille
1865
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
81 × 100.3 cm (31 7/8 × 39 1/2 in.); Framed: 108.6 × 128.3 cm (42 3/4 × 50 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44017
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Frédéric Bazille · 1841–1870
**Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870)** was a French Impressionist painter whose brief career helped shape the movement’s early development. Born Jean Frédéric Bazille on December 6, 1841, in Montpellier into a wealthy Protestant family of wine merchants, he grew up on the family estate of Le Domaine de Méric near Castelnau-le-Lez. Initially drawn to painting after encountering works by Eugène Delacroix,...