The Western Ramparts at Aigues-Mortes
Frédéric Bazille
1867
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 60 x 100 cm (23 5/8 x 39 3/8 in.) framed: 78.7 x 116.2 x 7 cm (31 x 45 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.1
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,...