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Frédéric Bazille

1841 - 1870

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Jean Frédéric Bazille (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁedeʁik bazij]; December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric Bazille is the 157th most popular painter (up from 158th in 2019), the 513th most popular biography from France (down from 500th in 2019) and the 45th most popular French Painter.

Frederic Bazille is most famous for being a French Impressionist painter who studied under Édouard Manet. He died at the age of 24 in the Franco-Prussian War.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Frédéric Bazille ranks 157 out of 2,023. Before him are Filippino Lippi, William Hogarth, John Constable, Gentile Bellini, Robert Delaunay, and Robert Campin. After him are Nicolai Abildgaard, Théodore Rousseau, Pinturicchio, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Fernando Botero, and Carl Larsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Frédéric Bazille ranks 12. Before him are Nicholas I of Montenegro, Georges Clemenceau, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Itō Hirobumi, Otto Wagner, and Emil Theodor Kocher. After him are Henri Fayol, Henry Morton Stanley, Félix Faure, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Armand Fallières, and Gerhard Armauer Hansen. Among people deceased in 1870, Frédéric Bazille ranks 5. Before him are Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Prosper Mérimée, and Robert E. Lee. After him are Josef Strauss, Comte de Lautréamont, Alexander Herzen, Francisco Solano López, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Gabriel Lamé.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Bazille ranks 513 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Prévert (1900), William of Rubruck (1220), Étienne de La Boétie (1530), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Carus (230), and Christine Lagarde (1956). After him are Camille Desmoulins (1760), René Laennec (1781), Gregory of Tours (538), Edgard Varèse (1883), Georges Bataille (1897), and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Frédéric Bazille ranks 45. Before him are Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Émile Bernard (1868), Jean Fouquet (1420), Fernand Léger (1881), Robert Delaunay (1885), and Robert Campin (1375). After him are Théodore Rousseau (1812), Paul Delaroche (1797), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Gustave Caillebotte (1848), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930), and Suzanne Valadon (1865).

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