Évariste-Vital LUMINAIS (Nantes 1821-1896 Paris) Renaissance wild boar hunting scene Oil on canvas (original Beugniet canvas) Signed lower left 54.5 x 65 cm. Presented in an opulent Louis XV-style gilded and carved wood frame. A fine example of the art of Luminais, a pupil of Cogniet, who subtly combines landscape and historical scenes, borrowing from both Barbizon and Delacroix. A work similar in theme and mood, "Scène de chasse au chien sauvage au temps des mérovingiens" (59x 85 cm, Dahesh Museum of Art, DM735), is in New York. Expert : Pierre-Antoine Martenet

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