Dessin au crayon
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, France - Inv. RF 5259 folio 23 verso
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Référence : MSb-228
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. 269.
Marandel, Cat. exp. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, n° 26, repr. p. 222 - Schulman, 1995, folio 23 verso, repr. p. 294 - Hilaire, Jones, Perrin, Cat. exp. Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, repr. 269 - Schulman, Frédéric Bazille : Catalogue raisonné numérique, 2022, n° 228.
As a music lover, Bazille often attended concerts with his friends. It is not surprising that he wanted, as here, to transpose a concert atmosphere. At that time," says Théodore Duret, "the Tuileries castle, where the Emperor held his court, was a center of luxurious life that extended to the gardens. The music played there twice a week attracted a worldly and elegant crowd." [Duret, 1902, p. 18. Quoted in the catalog of the Manet exhibition, 1983, p. 122].
Bazille certainly witnessed such spectacles as this drawing illustrates.
