Studio in the Rue de Furstemberg

Painted in 1865 and held at the Musée Fabre, this view of the studio Bazille shared with Monet on the Rue de Furstemberg in the 6th arrondissement—not far from the Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés—is a record of the material conditions of the young Impressionist circle. The studio on this small, quiet square was a workspace Bazille and Monet divided, and the painting documents its contents and light with a frankness that anticipates Bazille's better-known studio painting of 1870. Rue de Furstemberg would later become famous as the former studio of Delacroix, a connection the young artists would have prized.

The interior composition is structured by the light source—likely a north-facing window—which organises the studio's contents into areas of light and shadow. Bazille renders the canvases, furniture, and working materials with the same attentive observation he brought to outdoor subjects.