[3] Bazille shared the studio on the rue de la Condamine, in the Batignolles neighborhood of northern Paris, with Pierre-Auguste Renoir from January 1868 to May 1870.

Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Émile Zola and Zacharie Astruc have all been named as possibilities.

The surrounding paintings include an unfinished version of La Toilette (Montpelier, Musée Favre) above the sofa, Fisherman with a Net (Zürich, Fondation Rau) on the high left, and the Fortune-Teller beneath the window.

[5][4]: 165  The paintings on the wall had all been rejected at some point by the Salon; Bazille expresses his support for them by placing them on view here.

In Bazille's Studio, a painting similar to Pierre Auguste Renoir's Diana the Huntress was revealed underneath the surface.

[4]: 158–159 Before late 20th, Bazille was regarded as an artist of secondary importance relative to the Impressionist painters he supported and befriended, such as Monet or Renoir.

However, an exhibition of his work at the Musée d'Orsay in 1987 granted Bazille a "modest but secure position among painters.