#Joseph Bail

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Joseph Bail (French, 1862 - 1921) - The Cat's Repast

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Still Life, 1887

Joseph Bail

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Joseph BAIL

[weary-hearted-art]

Joseph Bail, Still Life with a Decanter and Travel Fork and Spoon, 1887

[visceral--feeling]

Still Life - Joseph Bail // When You Walk Away - 5 Seconds of Summer

[life--in--pink]

"Still Life" by Claude Joseph Bail (French, 1862-1921)

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Joseph Bail

(1862 - 1921)

Le repos

Oil on canvas

18.25 x 21.75 inches

Signed

[artsregards]

Lace Making, Joseph Bail, n.d., charcoal and sepia wash, 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (29.2 x 23.5 cm)

This image was sourced from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Republic of France, 1915.11.5; https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/lace-making-845

I’m grateful that we have records of textiles throughout history and prehistory, even if largely only through their depictions in other mediums. The lace the subject in this drawing is working on may still be around today, but the same can’t be said for thousands of years of textile work, because it doesn’t survive. It rots, and breaks down, and becomes other things. If I could go back in time to retrieve any lost thing it would be examples of the textiles that were worn and used- in any period, really -but the DnD campaign I’m currently a part of is set in the Bronze age, so that’s the time period I’m most curious about right now. I want to feel the weave of their baby blankets and see how they were designed, I want to see the colours they wore, the rugs that decorated grand establishments and those that were made for people’s homes, I want to talk to their textile artisans about their dye methods. It’s overwhelming to think about how much history is not only lost, but not even thought of or wondered about by anyone today because not only is it gone, but nobody ever thought to draw it or sculpt it or write it down. Things that we have never even conceptualised, or things we may think we’ve invented that somebody someplace has created before. Thinking about lost textiles and lost textile methods feeds my appreciation for process work and documentation like nothing else. A function that drawings like these serve, that sculptures detailing the clothes people wore serve, another function that stories like the Iliad serve- is keeping these oft overlooked aspects of history and culture alive.

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Joseph Bail - Still life, 1887

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La Normandie et les peintres 10

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art aesthetics: coquette

[random-brushstrokes]

Joseph Bail - The card players (ca. 1897)

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[artystyczny-nieporzadek]

Art Details Series: It’s almost dinnertime

|| Charles Spencelayh, Franck Antoine Bail, Albert Anker, Charles Joseph Grips, Morgan Weistling, Anton Ebert, Johannes Vermeer, William Henry Margetson ||

[cinematic-phosphenes]

Glamour, knowledge & sugarcoated malice

[collectionstilllife]

Claude Joseph Bail (French, 1862-1921) • Still Life with Antiques • 1885 • Private collection