Manet and his Easel, 1868?70 (? ), Charcoal, blue and white chalk on blue laid paper faded to yellow-gray, 11 5/8 x 8 7/16 in. (29. 5 x 21. 5 cm), Drawings, Jean-Frederic Bazille (French, Montpellier 1841?1870 Beaune-la-Rolande), This sensitive drawing testifies to the collaboration and friendship among the prominent Impressionist painters. It likely was made in Bazille?s Paris studio on the rue de la Condamine just a year before the artist?s untimely death in the Franco-Prussian War, when hisrelationship with Manet had grown especially close