Franck Bail (1858-1924) ''nature Morte Au Broc Et Oignons Sur Un Entablement''
Artist: Franck Bail
On a table, Franck Bail has placed a polished brass pitcher in which the onions placed on the whitetablecloth are reflected. By seeking to reproduce the material, the work plays on a contrast ofcolors, the objects seem outside the canvas and of a truth to deceive the eyes.
The eldest son of Antoine-Jean Bail, a painter from Lyon, Franck-Antoine, like his father and hisyounger brother Joseph, painted genre scenes, still lifes, landscapes from the region aroundFontainebleau. He also completed portraits for which he gained a solid reputation. He studiedwith his father Antoine-Jean Bail (1830-1918) and in the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme, and beganexhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1878. He received an honorable mention at theSalon in 1889, a third class medal in 1900, and a second medal in 1904. Perhaps not as well knownas his brother Joseph, his reputation is nonetheless well established among the genre painters ofthe latter part of the nineteenth-century.
Similar to Théodule Ribot, his daughter Louise and son Germain, another family of 19th centuryrealist painters, the Bails worked in Paris where they had studios on the Isle Saint Louis. The first,at 17-quai d’Anjou in the hotel Lauzun, had a spacious kitchen that served as a wonderfulbackground for the Bails’ paintings of cooks, scullions, and copper ware cleaners. When not inParis, the three artists moved to Bois-Le-Roi near Fontainebleau, where they spent their summersand found other subjects for their canvases, namely studies of the forest of Fontainebleau orgenre scenes representing rural themes.
The eldest son of Antoine-Jean Bail, a painter from Lyon, Franck-Antoine, like his father and hisyounger brother Joseph, painted genre scenes, still lifes, landscapes from the region aroundFontainebleau. He also completed portraits for which he gained a solid reputation. He studiedwith his father Antoine-Jean Bail (1830-1918) and in the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme, and beganexhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1878. He received an honorable mention at theSalon in 1889, a third class medal in 1900, and a second medal in 1904. Perhaps not as well knownas his brother Joseph, his reputation is nonetheless well established among the genre painters ofthe latter part of the nineteenth-century.
Similar to Théodule Ribot, his daughter Louise and son Germain, another family of 19th centuryrealist painters, the Bails worked in Paris where they had studios on the Isle Saint Louis. The first,at 17-quai d’Anjou in the hotel Lauzun, had a spacious kitchen that served as a wonderfulbackground for the Bails’ paintings of cooks, scullions, and copper ware cleaners. When not inParis, the three artists moved to Bois-Le-Roi near Fontainebleau, where they spent their summersand found other subjects for their canvases, namely studies of the forest of Fontainebleau orgenre scenes representing rural themes.
2 250 €
Period: 19th century
Style: Other Style
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Oil painting
Length: 33 cm.
Width: 24.5 cm.
Reference (ID): 1745097
Availability: In stock
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