The Sons of Clovis II (Les enervés de Jumièges)  1880

Signed l.l., brown oil "E. Luminais [underlined]". Not dated. [br] This demonstration of parental discipline of the Merovingian period remains shocking more than a century after its completion. It says much for the grotes-query of nineteenth-century Salon painting, of which it is so spectacular an example, that 'The sons of Clovis II' is still a collection favourite. Alar...