Black Woman with Peonies

Jeune Femme aux pivoines

Black Woman with Peonies

Frédéric Bazille · 1870

Musée Fabre

Montpellier, France

About this painting

One of a pair Bazille painted in the last months before his death, this work echoes Manet's Olympia but shifts focus: the Black model becomes the picture's active, central subject.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

60 × 75 cm (23.6 × 29.5 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Musée Fabre, Montpellier

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