Jules
Bastien-Lepage, Joan of Arc
1879
Oil on canvas, 100 x 110 in. (254 x 279.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
"After the province of
Lorraine was lost to Germany following the
Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Frenchmen saw in Joan of Arc a new and
powerful symbol. In 1875 Bastien-Lepage, a native of Lorraine, began to
make studies for a picture of her. In the present painting, exhibited
in the Salon of 1880, Joan is shown receiving her revelation in her
parents' garden. Behind her are Saints Michael, Margaret, and
Catherine." -- Note from the museum
More of St. Joan of Arc
Photographed at the museum by Richard
Stracke