A Parisian Bourgeois and the Art of Remembrance Honorable Homme Chicart Bailly remains a somewhat enigmatic figure in the landscape of 16th-century French art, yet his surviving works offer a compelling glimpse into the anxieties and aesthetics of the period. Born in Paris around the turn of the century, Bailly was not a painter in the traditional sense, but rather a *marchand tabletier* – a dealer in small luxury objects, including i…