Editing Frédéric Bazille (section)

==Life and work==
[[File:Frédéric Bazille - Bazille's Studio - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|333px|''[[Studio in Rue de La Condamine]],'' 1870, [[Musée d'Orsay]], [[Paris]]. Among Bazille's friends portrayed are [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]] sitting, and [[Édouard Manet]] next to Bazille, who portrays himself painting.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Art Book|year= 1994 |publisher=Phaidon Press| page= 33| isbn=91-0-056859-7 |url=http://uk.phaidon.com/store/art/the-art-book-mini-format-9780714836256/}}</ref>]]
Frédéric Bazille was born in [[Montpellier]], [[Hérault]], [[Languedoc-Roussillon]], France, into a wealthy wine merchant [[Protestant]] family. Bazille grew up in the Le Domaine de Méric, a wine-producing estate in [[Castelnau-le-Lez]], near Montpellier, owned by his family.<ref>{{Cite news|title= Domaine de Méric – Ville de Montpellier|website=montpellier.fr |date=January 8, 2015 |url=https://www.montpellier.fr/440-domaine-de-meric.htm |accessdate=2022-07-11}}</ref> He became interested in painting after seeing some works of [[Eugène Delacroix]]. His family agreed to let him study painting, but only if he also studied medicine.<ref name="bio"/>

Bazille began studying medicine in 1859, and moved to [[Paris]] in 1862 to continue his studies. There he met [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]] and [[Alfred Sisley]], was drawn to Impressionist painting, and began taking classes in [[Charles Gleyre]]'s studio. After failing his medical exam in 1864, he began painting full-time. His close friends included [[Claude Monet]], [[Alfred Sisley]] and [[Édouard Manet]]. Bazille was generous with his wealth and helped support his less fortunate associates by giving them space in his studio and materials to use.<ref name="bio"/>

Bazille was just twenty-three years old when he painted several of his best-known works, including ''[[The Pink Dress]]'' (c. 1864, [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris). This painting combines a portrait-like depiction of Bazille's cousin, Thérèse des Hours, who is seen from behind—and the sunlit landscape at which she gazes.<ref>Rosenblum, 1989, p. 225</ref> His best-known painting is ''[[The Family Reunion (painting)|Family Reunion]]'', painted 1867–1868 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).

Frédéric Bazille joined a [[Zouave]] regiment in August 1870, a month after the outbreak of the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. On November 28th of that year he was with his unit at the [[Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande]] when his commanding officer was injured. That required him to take command and lead an assault on the German position. He was hit twice in the failed attack and died on the battlefield at the age of twenty-eight. His father travelled to the battlefield a few days later to take his body back for burial at Montpellier in the [[Protestant Cemetery, Montpellier|Protestant cemetery]] over a week later.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gotlieb |first1=Marc |title=The Deaths of Henri Regnault |date=2016 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-27604-5 |page=185 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2017/frederic-bazille-and-the-birth-of-impressionism.html|title=Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism|website=www.nga.gov|access-date=2018-10-19}}</ref>

=== Personal life ===
Bazille never married, claiming it was because of “an early heartbreak with a woman.” He developed intimate friendships with men, such as [[Edmond Maître]], but was also melancholic and claimed to “hav[e] constant migraines while he was painting his nude men.” This and the [[homoeroticism]] of his paintings led to modern suggestions that Bazille may have been [[gay]] and [[Ego-dystonic sexual orientation|conflicted about his sexuality]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schjeldahl |first=Peter |date=2017-04-10 |title=Frédéric Bazille's Short Career, Reconsidered |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/frederic-bazilles-short-career-reconsidered |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250101205124/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/frederic-bazilles-short-career-reconsidered |archive-date=1 January 2025 |access-date=2025-03-23 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Darnaude |first=Ignacio |date=2022-02-22 |title=Artists Bathing the Gay Away |url=https://glreview.org/article/artists-bathing-the-gay-away/ |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=[[The Gay & Lesbian Review]] |language=en-US}}</ref>