Keywords: JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg Artwork Creator Jules Bastien-Lepage 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 1879 Oil on canvas in 100 110 Metropolitan Museum of Art http //www metmuseum org/toah/works-of-art/89 21 1 <br /> http //www metmuseum org/collection/the-collection-online/search/435621 object history exhibition history Exhibited at the Salon 1880 credit line Signed dated and inscribed lower right J BASTIEN “LEPAGE / DAMVILLERS Meuse / 1879 accession number 89 21 1 place of creation Jules Bastien-Lepage Johanna von Orleans anagoria JPG Joan of Arc 1879 1253783751 jpg original upload log All names are on English Wikipedia Delete all revisions of this file cur 22 02 25 July 2003 Rednblu Talk contribs block 250×225 27 459 bytes 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 PD-old-auto-1923 1884 Paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage Jeanne d'Arc with her Voices Spinning in art French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 19th-century oil on canvas paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1879 oil on canvas paintings in the United States 1879 paintings from France |