Summer Scene

Scène d’été

Summer Scene

Frédéric Bazille · 1869

Fogg Museum

Cambridge, United States

About this painting

Bazille chose a nearly square canvas — an unusual format for the period — to stage this sunlit gathering of bathers, prized today for its bold, simplified composition.

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

158 × 158 cm (62.2 × 62.2 in)

Painted at

Montpellier, France

Current location

Fogg Museum, Cambridge

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