1869
Fusain et encre brune
30, 5 x 23, 2 cm - 11 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques, France - Inv. RF 29.731 verso
Dernière mise à jour : 2022-03-17 19:23:26
Référence : MSb-107
Famille de l'artiste, Montpellier - Frédéric Bazille, neveu de l'artiste - Don Frédéric Bazille au musée du Louvre en 1949.
Montpellier, New York, 1992-1993, n° 6, repr. p. 83 - Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, fig. 22, repr. p. 51, cat. 52, p. 248.
Bouchot-Saupique, Sarraute, Bulletin des musées de France, mai 1949, repr. p. 92 - Schulman, Frédéric Bazille : Catalogue raisonné, 1995, n° 19 des dessins, repr. p. 252 - Hilaire, Jones, Perrin, Cat. exp. Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, fig. 22, repr. p. 51 - Schulman, Frédéric Bazille : Catalogue raisonné numérique, 2022, n° 107.
This drawing appears on the reverse of the Study for the Summer Scene. This head "of a bearded man", as Sarraute puts it, can only be, in our opinion, that of Bazille himself. In Renoir's Portrait de Bazille, and in the preparatory drawing for The Family Gathering, Bazille is shown with an identical beard. It cannot be ignored that there are strong similarities between this drawing and his Self-Portrait in Shirt Sleeves particularly through the beard but especially the hairstyle that clears the forehead.
