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Lot 36*,TP

Jules-Arsène Garnier
(French, 1847-1889)
Le droit du seigneur

24 September 2025, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Jules-Arsène Garnier (French, 1847-1889)

Le droit du seigneur
signed and dated 'JULES GARNIER.1872' (lower left)
oil on canvas
70 x 126.4cm (27 9/16 x 49 3/4in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Anon. sale, Laurin Guilloux Buffetaud Tailleur, Paris, 4 November 1980, lot 173.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 1989, lot 222.
Private collection, USA.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2019, lot 556.
Property of a gentleman (acquired from the above sale).

Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1872, no. 669.

Literature
'À Travers le Salon', La Revue Politique et Littéraire, Paris, 25 May 1872, no. 48, p. 1140.
Jules Claretie, 'L'Art Français en 1872: Revue du Salon', Peintres et Sculpteurs Contemporains, Paris, 1874, deuxième édition, p. 315.
Eugène Montrosier, 'Jules Garnier', Les Artistes Modernes, Première Partie: Les Peintres de Genre, Paris, 1881, vol. I, p. 38.
Louis B. Binsse, 'A Mythical Feudal Right', The Catholic World, A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science, New Jersey, July 1887, vol. XLV, p. 474.
William S. Walsh, 'Custom of the Country', Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and Miscellaneous Antiquities, Philadelphia, 1887, p. 314.

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