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Artist:
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Jean-Frédéric Bazille
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Title:
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Landscape by the Lez River
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Date:
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1870
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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54 x 79 in. (137.16 x 200.66 cm) (sight)
66 1/4 x 91 1/2 x 4 in. (168.28 x 232.41 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The Special Arts Reserve Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 355
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Frédéric Bazille worked on this landscape near his family home near Montpellier, in the Languedoc region of southern France, shortly before he was killed in action during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Bazille, Jean-Frédéric
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1841 - 1870
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date LL in black: [F. Bazille 1870] (signed posthumously?) MIA label: [L69.94 Lent by Wildenstein and Co.] (written in longhand)
Packer and shipper's label: [
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Landscape.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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69.23
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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