Manet and his Easel

Jean-Frédéric Bazille

1868–70 (?) · Charcoal, white chalk on blue laid paper faded to yellow-gray · Robert Lehman Collection

This sensitive drawing testifies to the collaboration and friendship among the prominent Impressionist painters. It likely was made in Bazille’s Paris studio on the rue de la Condamine just a year before the artist’s untimely death in the Franco-Prussian War, when hisrelationship with Manet had grown especially close.

Artist

Jean-Frédéric Bazille

Date

1868–70 (?)

Medium

Charcoal, white chalk on blue laid paper faded to yellow-gray

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975