Mythologic Scene
Fusain
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, France - Inv.RF 5260 folio 41 recto
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Référence : MSb-186
Frédéric Bazille
1841-1870
Fusain
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, France - Inv.RF 5260 folio 41 recto
Dernière mise à jour : 2022-02-26 11:57:29
Référence : MSb-186
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, repr. p. 265.
Marandel, Cat. exp.The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, n° 69; repr. p. 221 - Schulman, 1995, folio 41 recto, repr. p. 281 - Hilaire, Jones, Perrin, Cat. exp. Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016- 2017, repr. p. 265 - Schulman, Frédéric Bazille : Catalogue raisonné numérique, 2022, n° 186.
In the 1978 Chicago exhibition catalogue, Marandel believes it to be a scene from Hamlet. However, we persist in thinking that it is a mythological scene depicting a minotaur abducting young men. The character on the right has the body of a man and the head of a bull and is holding a young person in his arms.
This theme is confirmed in the drawing Mythologic Scene, where a minotaur can be seen very clearly at the top of the drawing.
