“The X-ray had actually been taken years before, and it was just sitting in the file,” exhibition co-curator Kimberly A. Jones of the National Gallery told artnet News, noting that it was co-curator ...

France's ambassador to the United States, Gérard Araud, is a fan of 19th-century French painter Frédéric Bazille. But I had a confession to make when I spoke with him about the National Gallery's ...

“Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism,” at the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is a great show, which surprised me. Bazille was not—or was not yet—a great artist when he died, in ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1781): I can’t say I have fallen wildly in love with any single picture by the obscure Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), now getting an important, rare survey at the ...

While Monet began his climb to impressionist fame, Bazille died too soon to contribute to the first major impressionist shows of 1874 and 1876. But Bazille’s reputation has been steadily growing, with ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Bazille was anything but a formed artist at the time of his death. Perhaps this is inevitable, since Bazille was ...