Artist: Claude Joseph Bail
Title: La Denteliere (the lacemaker)
Date of artist: 1862-1921
Nationality: French
Pillow: bolster?, on lap
Bobbins: bulbs on end, not many bobbins
Comments: The lacemaker looks as if she's bored with her lace! Also, she's facing the window, which would tend to put her lace working into shadow, I would have thought. Most lacemakers on this page are sitting sideways to the window, or with the light behind them, or outside. We can see that her feet are not resting on anything. Perhaps it is a low chair. I have said that it's a bolster, as it looks stuffed, without any obvious wooden frame.
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