# View of the Village [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BAZILLE, Jean-Frédéric]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 130 x 89 cm ## Commentary Bazille was combining a new approach to figural work with energetic attention to colour values in the open. On two occasions, four years apart \(in 1864 and 1868\), he tackled open-air portraiture, doing a young woman dressed in light colours, with a view of the village of Castelnau-le-Lez rising upon a gentle slope in the background. The 1868 painting was exhibited at the Salon the following year. ## Related artworks - [After the Bath]() - [Bathers \(Summer Scene\)]() - [Family Gathering]() - [Girl in a Pink Dress]() - [Louis Auriol Fishing]() - [Portrait of Auguste Renoir]() - [Self-Portrait with Palette]() - [The Artist's Studio \(detail\)]() - [The Artist's Studio]() - [The Terrace at Méric \(Oleander\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()