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Évariste Vital Luminais (13 October 1821 – 10 or 15 May 1896〔"LUMINAIS, E. V.", ''Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers'', rev. ed. George C. Williamson, Volume 3, New York: Macmillan / London: Bell, 1904, , (p. 258 ).〕〔) was a French painter. He is best known for works depicting early French history and is sometimes called "the painter of the Gauls". ==Life and career== Luminais was born in Nantes into a parliamentary and legal family. His great-grandfather Michel Luminais was an official in the Vendée; his grandfather Michel-Pierre Luminais represented the Vendée in parliament from 1799 to 1803;〔(Michel, Pierre LUMINAIS ), Assemblée nationale 〕 and his father, René Marie Luminais, represented Loire-Inférieure from 1831 to 1834 and Indre-et-Loire from 1848 to 1849.〔(René, Marie LUMINAIS ), Assemblée nationale 〕 Aware of his natural artistic talent, his family sent him to Paris when he was 18 to study with the painter and sculptor Auguste Debay. He also studied with Léon Cogniet, a historical and portrait painter whose pupils included Léon Bonnat, and Constant Troyon, who painted landscapes and animals.〔(Evariste Luminais (French, 1821–1896): ''Merovingians Attacking a Wild Dog'', ca. 1875–85 ), Dahesh Museum of Art, retrieved 19 July 2014.〕 He married twice. By his first wife, Anne Foiret, he had a daughter, Esther. After Anne's death in 1874, he remarried in 1876 to one of his pupils, Hélène de Sahuguet d'Amarzit d'Espagnac; she had been married to Claude Durand de Neuville but had been widowed in the War of 1870.〔Françoise Daum, Dominique Dussol ''et al'', ''Evariste Vital Luminais, Peintre des Gaules, 1821–1896'', Exhibition catalogue, Carcassonne: Musée des beaux-arts; Charleville-Mézières: Musée de l'Ardenne, 2002, , (p. 14 ) 〕 He made his official début at the 1843 Paris Salon, where two of his paintings were hung. He won medals at the Salons of 1852, 1855, 1857, 1861 and 1889. In 1869, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur. He won the gold medal at the 1889 Exposition, and was a founder member of the Société des Artistes Français.〔 For more than forty years, he divided his time between his Paris studio at 17 boulevard Lannes and his summer house and studio in the village of Douadic, in the Brenne region.〔(Photographs of the house ), Base Mérimée.〕 The area had been recommended to him by two friends, Jules de Vorys and Louis Fombelle. Among his students were Albert Maignan〔 and Emily Sartain; he was one of the few Academy painters who would teach women.〔Patricia Likos Ricci, "''Bella, Cara Emilia'': The Italianate Romance of Emily Sartain and Thomas Eakins", in: ''Philadelphia's Cultural Landscape: The Sartain Family Legacy'', ed. Katharine Martinez and Page Talbott, Philadelphia: Temple University, 2000, ISBN 9781566397919, (p. 130 ).〕 Luminais died in Paris at the age of 75 and was buried in the little cemetery in Douadic. His native city of Nantes has a street named for him.〔"Rue Evariste Luminais", Édouard Pied, ''Notices sur les rues, ruelles, cours, impasses, quais, ponts, boulevards, places et promenades de la ville de Nantes'', Nantes: Dugas, 1906, p. 180 : (online ) at fr.wikisource.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Évariste Vital Luminais」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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