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Manet and his Easel

1868–70 (?)
Not on view
This sensitive drawing testifies to the collaboration and friendship among the prominent Impressionist painters. It likely was made in Bazille’s Paris studio on the rue de la Condamine just a year before the artist’s untimely death in the Franco-Prussian War, when hisrelationship with Manet had grown especially close.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Manet and his Easel
  • Artist: Jean-Frédéric Bazille (French, Montpellier 1841–1870 Beaune-la-Rolande)
  • Date: 1868–70 (?)
  • Medium: Charcoal, white chalk on blue laid paper faded to yellow-gray
  • Dimensions: 11 5/8 × 8 7/16 in. (29.5 × 21.5 cm)
    Framed: 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (54 × 41.3 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.569
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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