Voices and Saints

Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage, Millais and others

Nigel Bruce

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Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage, Millais and others
Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel: "The Vision and Inspiration" (circa 1907-early 1909), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Jules Bastien-Lepage was from Lorraine and he painted Joan of Arc in the fall-out years after the Prussian invasion of 1870-71. He had fought in the French army and like many others thought of Joan as a symbol of French freedom. Nearby Alsace and northern Lorraine by then had become German territory, but Domrémy barely remained within France. This painting is from 1879. Notice the angels.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
John Everett Millais: "Joan of Arc" (1865)

Below is the cover art for Mark Twain's book of 1894, artwork by Eugène Grasset.

Mark-Twain-Joan-of-Arc