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1863:
At Gleyre's studio Bazille met Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. In February, he acted in the play La Tour de Nesle (Nesle's Tower) by Alexandre Dumas, staged by students at the studio. Bazille copied works by Peter Paul Rubens at the Louvre and painted sur le motif (in nature) with Monet in Fontainebleau Forest in the spring. In Paris, Bazille frequented the salons of relatives from Montpellier who moved in avant-garde circles and introduced him to Edouard Manet. |