of twenty-eight. The lost Jeune fille au piano When Ruth et Booz was X-rayed during preparations for the exhibition “Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism,” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 2017, one of Bazille's lost works was rediscovered. Jeune fille au piano (Young Woman at the Piano) was a work which he had completed in 1866. Bazille described the work in great detail in correspondence with his mother, including the green satin colors of the model's dress and dimensions of the painting, and he also mentioned that it had been praised by Gustave Courbet. Bazille had intended on making it his debut work at the Paris Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art event in the Western world. Acceptance at this exhibition would have ensured Bazille's career in the orthodoxy of French painting. The Salon rejected Bazille's Jeune fille au piano, although they did accept his more mundane "Still Life with Fish", which became Bazille's debut work. It is not certain why Bazille painted over this composition; however, despite his relative wealth, Bazille for known for recycling many of his rejected compositions. See also List of paintings by Frédéric Bazille References Pitman, Dianne W. (1998). Bazille: Purity, Pose and Painting in the 1860s. University Park: Penn State University Press. . Notes 1870 paintings Paintings by Frédéric Bazille Paintings in the collection of the Musée Fabre