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Summary
Jules Bastien-Lepage : Joan of Arc | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q541859
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Title |
French:
Jeanne d'Arc
Joan of Arc
title QS:P1476,fr:"Jeanne d'Arc"
label QS:Lfr,"Jeanne d'Arc"
label QS:Len,"Joan of Arc"
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Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | history painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English:
When after the
Franco-Prussian War
of 1871,
Joan of Arc
's homeland of
Lorraine
was once again held captive by invaders, the people of Lorraine rallied around the symbol of Joan of Arc who four hundred years earlier had rallied the French army against the English invaders. As one of the Lorraine natives inspired by the sudden relevance of Joan of Arc's image,
Jules Bastien-Lepage
in 1875 started sketches for this life-sized portrait of Joan of Arc showing her at the moment that she received her first call to arms against the English invaders of 1424. Bastien-Lepage captures the suddenness of the call by showing the overturned chair from which she has just sprung at her spinning wheel behind her together with the wet edge of her dress that has just brushed through the dew from the weeds in the garden at the back of her parents' house.
The 2.5 meter (8 feet) high painting hangs in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York. The enormous painting was achieved by joining two vertical canvas panels and frames along the vertical line through the right edge of the house in the background. The almost transparent Saints
Michael
,
Margaret
, and
Catherine
can be seen hovering in the background against the house awaiting her decision.
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Depicted people | Joan of Arc | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1879
date QS:P571,+1879-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
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Dimensions | 100 × 110 in (254 × 279.4 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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Current location |
room 800
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Accession number |
89.21.1
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Exhibition history | Salon , 1880 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Signature, location and date bottom right:
J.BASTIEN–LEPAGE / DAMVILLERS Meuse / 1879
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References |
Marie-Claude Coudert, « Fin de siècle », dans Jeanne d'Arc : les tableaux de l'histoire, 1820-1920 , Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003, ( ISBN 2-7118-4682-2 ), p. 129-132. |
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Source/Photographer | Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 435621) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Licensing
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Original upload log
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- (del) (rev) 21:52, 25 July 2003 . . Rednblu (Talk | contribs | block) . . 0×0 (0 bytes) ( Bastien-Lepage, 1880. Joan of Arc in her parents' garden at the moment she thought she got the call.)