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Lot description
Enormous original, signed oil on canvas. This work was exhibited at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1903-05 and was on loan, No. 553 in the 1905 Cataloged. 64 x 87. Luminais worked in the genre and historical modes. He was among the academic painters who satisfied a social demand for aggrandizing, even propagandistic historical works in the early years of the Third Republic, after the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. As such, he shared in their condemnation by the advocates of modern art. Luminais was one of five artists who collaborated between 1886 and 1889 on a monumental fresco, more than 1,500 square meters (16,000 sq ft) in area, for the interior of the dome of the Paris Commercial Bourse, representing the history of intercontinental trade. It includes a scene representing America which features Indians, slaves, laborers, cowboys, and a steam train representing the modern world.