Court of Justice 17 December 2009, C-518/08 (Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí and Visual Entidad de Gestión de Artistas Plásticos (VEGAP) v Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP) and Others.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. In 1859, Jean-François Millet completed and sold his famous painting L’Angélus . Years after his death, at a time when his family, like many others affected by the First World War, was in straitened circumstances, the painting changed hands at a price which considerably enriched the seller.