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Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863–1942), a French genre painter and etcher, studied at the Paris Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme. His work combines observation of rural life with careful development of figures. The Catechism Lesson, an 1890 oil on canvas held in Besançon, presents a priest and children in a garden. It was exhibited at the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts Salon in 1891.
The graphite Study of Two Children for this composition, dated 1890, illuminates his preparatory process. Drawing mediates between photographs of models and the painting’s arrangement, connecting observation with staging. An anonymous photoglyptie preserved at the Paris Beaux-Arts subsequently documents the work’s reproduction: photography thus accompanies both its preparation and its circulation.
This profile brings together identity references for Jules-Alexis Muenier and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Piguet
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Oil on panel
Jeune fille au panier
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2025-06-05 — 2025-06-18
Published result : 1100 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 400–600
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Pont sur le Durgeon près de Coulevon.
Öl auf Leinwand
Date to be documented
Published result : 2600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000
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Saint-Ursanne am Doubs.
gouache
Date to be documented
Published result : 1300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1400
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