About the Artwork
Still Life with Fish
1866
Jean-Frederic Bazille
1841-1870
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 25 × 32 1/4 inches (63.5 × 81.9 cm) Framed: 32 1/8 × 39 3/4 × 3 1/2 inches (81.6 × 101 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
1988.9
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Markings
Signed, lower right: F. Bazille
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Provenance
1952, Collection of A.M. André Bazille (Montpellier, France)
possibly by descent, Mme. Rachou-Bazille (France). (Paul Kantor)
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Palais de l'Industrie, Salon. Paris, May 1-June 15 1866, no. 97.
"Retrospective Bazille." Salon d'Automne. Paris, 1910, no. 6.
Exposition Internationale, "Retrospective Bazille," Montpellier, Musée Fabre, 1927, no. 6.
Poulain, G. Bazille et Ses Amis. Paris, 1932, no. 14.
"Centenaire de Bazille." Montpellier, Musée Fabre, May-June 1941, no. 16.
Rewald, J. History of Impressionism. New York, 1946, pp. 115, 121.
"Bazille," Exh. cat., Galerie Wildenstein. Paris, 1950, no. 23. (exhibition catalogue incorrectly states that painting is signed/dated l.r.: F.B.1866.)
Daulte, F. Frederic Bazille et Son Temps. Geneva, 1952, p. 173, no. 17, repr.
Frédéric Bazille, Exh. cat., Musée Fabre. Montpellier, October 1959, pp. 13-31, no. 13.
Frederic Bazille and Early Impressionism. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1978, p. 132. (repr. as collateral image only, not in exhibition) lent from private collection.
Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 2/3. 1988, p. 18, fig. 14, repr. only.
Marandel, J. P. "A note on Bazille's Still Life with Fish of 1865," Bulletin of the DIA 65, no. 4. 1990, pp. 4-11, fig 1, repr.
Frédèric Bazille: Prophet of Impressionism. Exh. cat., Musée Fabre, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Dixon Galleries. Montpellier, Brooklyn, Memphis, 1992/1993, p. 12, repr. (cat. entry by D. Pitman).
Daulte, F. Frédéric Bazille et les débuts de l'Impressionisme. Paris, 1992, no. 19.
Bajou, V. Frédèric Bazille 1841-1870, Aix-en-Provence. 1993, pp. 12, 117, repr. (color).
Bonfoux, P. Bazille: les Plaisirs et les Jours. Paris, 1994, pp. 20-21, repr.
Schulman, M. Frédéric Bazille. Paris, 1995, no. 22.
Pitman, Dianne W. Bazille: Purity, Pose, and Painting in the 1860s. University Park, 1998, pp. 55, 68–71 (ill.), 77.
Frédéric Bazille. Exh. cat., Musée Marmottan Monet. Paris, 2003, pp. 41, 79, 84 cat. 10, repr. (exh. organized by M. Delafond and C. Genet-Bondeville).
Hilaire, Michel and Paul Perrin, eds. Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) and the Birth of Impressionism. Exh. cat., Musée Fabre, Musée d'Orsay and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Paris, 2016, pp. 35, 39, 77, 83, fig. 43 (ill.); pp. 85, 88, 90, 152, 158, 232, cat. 29 (ill.); p. 283.
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Jean-Frederic Bazille, Still Life with Fish, 1866, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1988.9.
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