View of the Village
Frédéric Bazille1868
Musée Fabre
Montpellier, France
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painting by Frédéric Bazille
Medium
oil paint
Dimensions
137.5 × 85 cm
1868
Montpellier, France
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liked it
Description
painting by Frédéric Bazille
Medium
oil paint
Dimensions
137.5 × 85 cm
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It shows a young woman sitting on a stone ledge overlooking the village of Castelnau-le-Lez in the Hérault department of France. As in his compositionally similar The Pink Dress of 1864 he used the Barbizon school's technique of framing the scene, using dark vegetation to concentrate the viewer's eye on the sunlit village in the distance.
