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Black Woman with Peonies also known as Négresse aux pivoines, Yound Woman with Peonies, and Negress with Peonies, is a series of two paintings created by Frédéric Bazille in the late spring 1870. Both paintings are oil on canvas, with one version on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the other version is on display at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, France.
The first of the paintings depicts a black woman with a bunch of peonies in her hand, staring at the viewer with a basket of flowers in her other arm. The second of the paintings depicts the same woman arranging the flowers into a vase, with the remaining flowers laying directly on the table.
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Composition and analysis
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Black Woman with Peonies is a painting by Frédéric Bazille, produced in late spring 1870, a few months before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War which would claim his life. It has been in the Musée Fabre, in Montpellier, since 1918. It is an oil on canvas and its dimensions are 60.3 cm (23.7 in) × 75.2 cm (29.6 in).
In the year that he painted it, Bazille created another, similar, image with the same model, currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. He may have conceived both works as a tribute to Manet. Both paintings make use of peonies, a type of flower Édouard Manet grew in his garden and painted frequently. In one of his most famous paintings, Olympia, Manet depicted a black servant bringing a bouquet of peonies to a reclining prostitute.[1]
The model who posed for Bazille is unidentified, but is the same model who posed for Thomas Eakins's painting Female Model (1867–1869), in which she wears the same headscarf and earring seen in Young Woman with Peonies.[2]
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Young Woman with Peonies, 1870, National Gallery of Art. -
Female Model, c. 1869, Thomas Eakins. Also known as A Negress.
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[edit]- ^ Painting record of Young Woman with Peonies on NGA website
- ^ Bailey, Colin B. (December 19, 2019). "In Plain Sight". The New York Review of Books 66 (20): 59–62.
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