Emile Munier (1840 - 1895)
[E. Munier]

Pupil of:

A. Lucas and Bouguereau

Emile Munier is a French painter, born in Paris, and a pupil of A. Lucas and Bouguereau, whose light and fanciful allegorial pictures enjoy an immense popularity. They always tell their story clearly, and with a pleasantly humorous touch to it, are well conceived and graceful in drawing, and agreeable in color. His "Cupid Disarmed" is an instance in point, possessing as it does all the qualities which have rendered the artist a favorite with the public. Venus, at sport with her tricksy offspring, has playfully deprived him of the weapons of which he makes such extensive and often wanton and mischievous use, and laughs at his ineffectual efforts to recover them. Cupid deprived of his weapon is, indeed, rendered harmless, but the time has yet to come when the goddess will actually execute her threat, and convert her jest to earnest.

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MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE.   Vol. XIII.   July, 1895.   No. 4.   p.321