Frédéric Bazille at his Easel

Frédéric Bazille at his Easel is an 1867 oil-on-canvas painting by Auguste Renoir, produced in response to Frédéric Bazille's own 1867 portrait of Renoir. It is owned by the Musée d'Orsay, which deposited it in 2006 at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, Bazille's birthplace.

Frédéric Bazille at his Easel
ArtistAuguste Renoir
Year1867
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions105 cm × 73.5 cm (41 in × 28.9 in)

The painting shows Bazille working on his still-life of a heron, which is also in the Musée Fabre.

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  • (in French) Francesca Castellani (trad. Marie-Christine Gamberini), Renoir : sa vie, son œuvre [« Renoir »], Paris, Gründ, 1996, 272 p. (ISBN 978-2-7000-2068-7).
  • (in French) Anne Distel, Renoir : « Il faut embellir », Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Arts » (nº 177), 2009, 175 p. (ISBN 978-2-0704-0243-4).r