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Paris, Musée d'Orsay, France - Inv. RF 5259 folio 50 verso
Dernière mise à jour : 2022-03-16 19:13:11
Référence : MSb-260
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. 128, repr. 188 et cat. 74, p. 259.
Marandel, Cat. exp. The Art Institute of Chicago, n° 59, repr. p. 225 - Schulman, 1995, folio 50 verso, repr. p. 303 - Montpellier, New York, 1992-1993, fig. 70 (repr.) - Hilaire, Jones, Perrin, Cat. exp. Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, fig. 128, repr. 188 et cat. 74, p. 259 - Schulman, Frédéric Bazille : Catalogue raisonné numérique, 2022, n° 260.
There is little difference between this preparatory drawing and the final painting. However, two objects have disappeared from the painting: the tripod on the right and the sickle on the lower left.
On April 7-8, 1870, Bazille alluded for the first time, albeit indirectly, to his painting Ruth and Booz: "It will take me a good month to finish the flowers I have begun and to make the drawings for a painting I propose to do at Méric". We know that there are height drawings for Ruth and Booz.
Finally, we note here the pencil frame, which confirms Bazille's intention to make a painting of it.
