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Claude Joseph Bail
French Academic Classical painter
born 1862 - died 1921

Also known as: Joseph Bail.


Joseph-Claude Bail was born during a period of intense disagreement in the Parisian art world. For several years the Salon juries had rejected many progressive painters works; printmaking was making a charge at establishing itself as a true art form; the Barbizon group of painters challenged the tradition of historical landscapes with their views of the modern countryside; and Realism was decades old and had brought forth such combative figures as Gustave Courbet. Yet not all painters can be said to belong tClaude Joseph Bail’s modern view of the nineteenth century. Numerous painters found prestige and public acclaim both at the Salons and with the public with works that relied on past styles and traditions influenced by the ¡°Little Masters¡± from seventeenth century Holland and traditions from eighteenth-century France. Joseph Bail belong to tClaude Joseph Bail’s group; not an painter who sought to align himself with the increasing stylistic anarchy of the late nineteenth century, but one who carefully examined the changing needs of Claude Joseph Bail’s patrons and gauged the underpinning social propensities of the time. In A Handbook of Modern French Painting, (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914, pg. 329) D. Cady Eaton wrote, before Bail¡¯s death, that he ¡°¡­ is an attractive and popular painter¡­Claude Joseph Bail’s pictures are comfortable and homelike; not startling and ambitious, but social and friendly.
Claude Joseph Bail’s position in French art seems assured.¡± Bail continued the tradition of Realism exemplified by Th¨¦odule Ribot and François Bonvin and received positive feedback which reinforced the continued respect for scenes reminiscent of daily life during the earlier years in France.

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