View of the Village
View of the Village is an 1868 painting by Jean-Frédéric Bazille, now in the Musée Fabre in Montpellier.
It shows a young woman sitting on a stone ledge overlooking the village of Castelnau-le-Lez in the Hérault department of France.
, 1864
As in his compositionally similar The Pink Dress'' of 1864 he used the Barbizon School's technique of framing the scene, using dark vegetation to concentrate the viewer's eye on the sunlit village in the distance. In this later work additional interest is provided by the subject looking towards the viewer.
The work was exhibited at the Salon the following year.
