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Summer Scene (Bathers)
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Summer Scene (Bathers)

Frédéric Bazille
1869
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The story

Bazille's letters show he first meant his bathers to be nude, but he painted them clothed, true to Montpellier's restriction on nude bathing in the Lez. Shown at the 1870 Salon, it may have inspired Thomas Eakins's The Swimming Hole.

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Object details

Title
Summer Scene (Bathers)
Artist
Frédéric Bazille
Date
1869
Culture
Not recorded
Medium
Oil on canvas
Object type
Paintings
Collection
Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge (1937.78)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number
EFA.1138
Original image
1920 × 1904 px
Source record
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License evidence
See the license

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