Dessin au crayon
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, France - Inv. RF 5259 folio 47 verso
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Référence : MSb-256
Famille de l'artiste - Marc Bazille, frère de l'artiste, Montpellier - Don de Marc Bazille au musée du Louvre, 1921 - Musée d'Orsay [Conservé au département des Arts graphiques du musée du Louvre].
Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, repr. p. 272.
Marandel, Cat. exp. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, n° 54, repr. p. 224 - Schulman, 1995, folio 47 verso, repr. p. 392 - Hilaire, Jones, Perrin, Cat. exp. Montpellier, Paris, Washington, 2016-2017, repr. p. 272 - Schulman, Frédéric Bazille : Catalogue raisonné numérique, 2022, n° 256.
Bazille was particularly fond of floral themes. The young woman holds a pair of scissors in her left hand and a bouquet in her right. Bazille uses the same theme in the drawing Woman in a Garden. There is every reason to believe that this is the same woman presented in the View of the Village. The same hairstyle can be recognized. Wasn't the young girl who posed for this famous painting the daughter of the gardener at Méric?
