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Joan of Arc  1879

by Jules Bastien-Lepage

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 fig...
Size: 
100 x 110 in. (254 x 279.4 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on Canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art