GARNIER Jules Arène Paris 1847 – 1889 Portrait of a Seated Woman Oil on canvas. Signed in the upper right corner. On the reverse, a stamp from the art dealer CHABOD, successor to BOVARDY / Dealer in Paints, Canvases, and Paintings, Rue de Bercy. H. 83 – W. 65 cm A student of Gérôme, creator of a large-scale painting known as the “Panorama” (Amsterdam) and of compositions inspired by medieval history—such as the intriguing *The Punishment of Adulterers*—J. A. Garnier exhibited at the Salon from 1869 to 1889. In 1877, the year the portrait described above was painted, he created his “Thiers Proclaimed Liberator of the Territory,” now in the collection of the Musée de Versailles. Expert: Patrice DUBOIS