Harvard Art Museums

🥵🌡 Sometimes the summer sun is best enjoyed indoors . . . Escape this week's heat dome in our air-conditioned galleries! Jean Frédéric Bazille's "Summer Scene (Bathers)," basically summer in a painting, hangs in Gallery 2700. When it was first exhibited in 1870, critic and artist Zacharie Astruc wrote of Bazille, “The sun inundates his canvases.” It appears that Bazille began this composition in his Paris studio but completed the details of the landscape after traveling to the south of France. Enjoy art, AC, and a cold drink from our museum cafe 10am-5am, Tuesday through Sunday. #Bazille #HarvardArtMuseums — Jean Frédéric Bazille, "Summer Scene (Bathers)," 1869-1870. Oil on canvas, 1937.78.