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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Bazille and Camille (Study for
Claude Monet (artist)
French, 1840 - 1926
Bazille and Camille (Study for "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe"), 1865
oil on canvas
Overall: 93 x 68.9 cm (36 5/8 x 27 1/8 in.) framed: 121.9 x 98.4 x 10.7 cm (48 x 38 3/4 x 4 3/16 in.)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
1970.17.41

Exhibition History

1940
Centenaire de Claude Monet, Galerie Andre Weil, Paris, 1940, no. 1
1952
French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist, repro.
1959
Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959, unnumbered catalogue
1961
French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961, no. 27, repro., frontispiece.
1965
Olympia's Progeny, Wildenstein, New York, 1965, no. 1, repro.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 80, repro
1980
Hommage a Claude Monet, Grand Palais, Paris, 1980, no. 7
1986
Monet, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1986, no. 5, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 33, repro.
1992
Frédéric Bazille et Ses Amis Impressionnistes, Pavillon du musée Fabre, Montpelier, France; Brooklyn Museum; Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, 1992-1993, fig. 13, repro. (shown only in Montpelier).
1992
From El Greco to Cezanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 45, repro.
1994
Origins of Impressionism, Galeries nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994-1995, no. 121, fig. 172, repro.
1996
Claude Monet, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, 1996, no. 11, repro., as Study for Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Strollers).
1999
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat. (substitute for painting returned early to NGA).
1999
Monet & Bazille: A Collaboration, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1999, no. 9, repro. and fig. 38, as The Strollers.
2000
Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890, National Gallery, London; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2000-2001, fig. 62.
2005
Monet und Camille: Frauenportraits im Impressionismus (Monet and Camille: Portraits of Women in Impressionism), Kunsthalle Bremen, 2005-2006, no. 9, repro.
2007
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2007, no. 89, repro.

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