Fusain
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, France - Inv. RF 5259 folio 29 verso
Dernière mise à jour : 2022-02-16 12:48:53
Référence : MSb-234
Famille de l'artiste - Marc Bazille, frère de l'artiste, Montpellier - Don de Marc Bazille au musée du Louvre, 1921 - Musée d'Orsay [Conservé au département des Arts graphiques du musée du Louvre].
Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, fig. 71, repr. p. 123 et cat. 36, p. 238.
Marandel, Cat. exp. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, n° 32, repr. p. 224 - Cat. exp. Montpellier, New York, 1992-1993, fig. 44, repr. p. 101 - Schulman, 1995, folio 29 verso, repr. p. 296 - Hilaire, Jones, Perrin, Cat. exp. Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, fig. 71, repr. p. 123 et cat. 36, p. 238 - Schulman, Frédéric Bazille : Catalogue raisonné numérique, 2022, n° 234.
This is a preparatory drawing for the painting in the Fabre Museum. The perspectives are identical, Bazille having given more field and thus more importance to the marshy foreground in the painting. We can clearly see the evolution that took place in the painter's mind: the drawing gives an essential place to the ramparts that delimit the subject. In the painting, it is the marshy foreground that comes to enhance the ramparts and these are in fact only one element in this Languedoc landscape.
