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| Joan of Arc |
Artist:Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, Damvillers 1848–1884 Paris)
Date:1879
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:100 x 110 in. (254 x 279.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Erwin Davis, 1889
Accession Number:89.21.1
Joan of Arc, the medieval teenaged martyr from the French province of Lorraine, gained new status as a patriotic symbol when France ceded the territory to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine, depicts the moment when Saints Michael, Margaret, and Catherine appear to the peasant girl in her parents’ garden, rousing her to fight the English invaders in the Hundred Years War. Critics at the Salon of 1880 praised Bastien-Lepage’s use of pose and facial expression to convey Joan’s spiritual awakening, but found the inclusion of the saints at odds with his naturalistic style.
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