Joan_of_Arc_(Dubois)

<i>Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc</i> (Paris)

Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (Paris)

1889 sculpture by Paul Dubois in Paris


Joan of Arc is a monumental bronze sculpture by French sculptor Paul Dubois. It depicts Joan of Arc both as a warrior and as a divinely inspired visionary.

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The original plaster was presented at the Salon in 1889, on a commission by the city of Reims in 1887.[1] Dubois donated it in 1902 to the Musée Paul-Dubois-Alfred Boucher in Nogent-sur-Seine,[2] now an annex of the Musée Camille Claudel.[3] An earlier plaster version is at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.[4]

There are four casts of the sculpture in public settings:[5]

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  1. "Jeanne d'Arc". POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. 2012.
  2. "Statue équestre de Jeanne d'Arc". Musée Camille Claudel.
  3. "Dubois-Boucher annex". Musée Camille Claudel.
  4. "Jeanne d'Arc". Musée d'Orsay.
  5. Elisabeth Lebon (2012). "Le monument équestre de Jeanne d'Arc ou les étranges rapports entre Pierre Bingen et Edmond Gruet". Le fondeur et le sculpteur: Technique du bronze et histoire de l'art. Traverses. Paris: Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art. ISBN 9782917902882.
  6. "Joan of Arc, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories Catalog.



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