Short Film
The Impressionist Who Never Got Old
Everyone in this painting is doing absolutely nothing. Bazille painted his family at their estate in Méric, 1867. His mother, his cousins, a hat tossed aside. Nobody is posing. Nobody is looking at him. He caught them between moments, when people forget they exist for someone else. He was 25 when he painted this. He was dead at 28, killed in the Franco Prussian War. Monet, Renoir, Sisley, they all kept going. Bazille never got to see what Impressionism became. But he was right there at the start, painting light on skin and shadow on dust before it had a name. This is a family afternoon that o
