Evariste Vital Luminais
(France 1822–1896)
- Title
- The sons of Clovis II
- Other titles:
- The sons of Clovis
- Alternative title:
- Les enervés de Jumièges
- Year
- 1880
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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190.7 x 275.8cm stretcher; 218.8 x 335.0 x 8.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., brown oil "E. Luminais [underlined]". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1886
- Accession number
- 712
- Location
- 19th & 20th c European art
- Further information
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. Alarmed by her sons' rebellion against their absent father, King Clovis, their mother - the regent Sainte Bathilde - has their tendons cut before sending them, immobilised, downstream on a barge to their fate. Though Luminais foreshadows the salvation of the malefactors in the distant shape of a Benedictine monastery, he is clearly more concerned with their present gruesome predicament. His great success with this painting in the Paris Salon of 1880 was not repeated, its cadaverous sensationalism proving a hard act to follow.
AGNSW Handbook, 1999.
- Provenance (1)
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Source unknown, Paris/France, Purchased by the AGNSW in Paris 1886
- Bibliography (34)
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The Art Journal 1880, 1880, 246.
Article by E. Michel., Revue des Deux Mondes 1880, 1880.
Du Seigneur (Author), L'Art et l'artistes au Salon de 1880, 1880.
Paris Salon (France) (Author), 1880 Catalogue illustré du Salon, 1880, 34 (illus.). cat.no. 2390, as 'Les enerves de Jumieges'
The Globe 01 Nov 1880, 01 Nov 1880.
The Standard 01 Nov 1880, 01 Nov 1880.
The Morning Post 01 Nov 1880, 01 Nov 1880.
The Daily News 02 Nov 1880, 02 Nov 1880.
The Morning Advertiser 02 Nov 1880, 02 Nov 1880.
The Daily Chronicle 02 Nov 1880, 02 Nov 1880.
The Illustrated London News 06 Nov 1880, 06 Nov 1880.
Athenaeum 06 Nov 1880, 06 Nov 1880.
The Academy 06 Nov 1880, 06 Nov 1880.
The Architect 06 Nov 1880, 06 Nov 1880.
The Times 10 Nov 1880, 10 Nov 1880.
The Graphic 13 Nov 1880, 13 Nov 1880.
Sydney daily telegraph 25 Nov 1880, 25 Nov 1880.
Saturday Review 04 Dec 1880, 04 Dec 1880.
Society 18 Dec 1880, 18 Dec 1880.
Author Unknown (Author), Art Criticism on Luminais's Picture, "Les Enervés de Jumièges" Exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1880; French Gallery, London 1881; Munich International Exhibition, 1883.
Article written by L. Enault., Paris Salon 1890, 1890.
Author Unknown (Author), Le Petit Francais illustre, cover (illus.).
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street] (Australia, estab. 1869, closed 1968), Art Gallery of South Australia (Australia, estab. 1881) (Author), Catalogue of the second interchange loan collections of oil paintings and watercolour drawings: exhibited in the Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide Galleries April, 1896, Sydney, 1896. cat.no. 1
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Continental Art, Sydney, 1940. cat.no. 40
Bulletin 13 May 1972, 13 May 1972.
History and Legend in some selected paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1980, 1980, 12 (illus.).
'Victorian favourites: a conversation - Elwyn Lynn and Lloyd Rees', pg. 49-56., Art and Australia (Vol. 22, No. 1) Spring 1984, Spring 1984, 49.
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 19.
Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Domain, 1984, (illus.). no catalogue numbers
Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 41.
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 108.
Various (Japan) (Author), The Pencil Orchids Second Anthology, New South Wales, 1995, cover (illus.).
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 41 (colour illus.).
Dominique Bussillet (Author), Les Énervés de Jumièges, 2007, 75 (colour illus.), 86.
- Exhibition history (8)
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Paris Salon, 1880, Paris Salon, 1880–1880.
Unknown, French Gallery 1881, Messrs Wallis & Sons, French Gallery, London, 1881–1881.
Munich International Exhibition, 1883, Exhibition Venue Unknown, 1883–1883.
The second interchange loan collections, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], 1896–1896.
The second interchange loan collections, National Gallery of South Australia, 1896–1896.
The second interchange loan collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1896–1896.
Exhibition of Continental Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 1940–Dec 1940.
Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1984–May 1985.
