Still Life with Fish

1866

Jean-Frederic Bazille French, 1841-1870

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Still Life with Fish

Artwork Date 1866

Artist Jean-Frederic Bazille

Life Dates 1841-1870

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 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)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1988.9

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Signed Signed, lower right: F. Bazille

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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Published References

Palais de l'Industrie, Salon. Paris, 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, 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, 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]

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. Montpellier, 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.

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.