Joan of Arc
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
100 x 110 in. (254 x 279.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Erwin Davis, 1889
Accession Number
89.21.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the ethereal world of Jules Bastien-Lepage's *Joan of Arc* (1879), a monumental oil on canvas measuring over 8 by 9 feet, now a cherished highlight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Paintings collection. Gifted by Erwin Davis in 1889, this Naturalist masterpiece captures the young Joan of Arc in the lush garden of her childhood home in Domrémy, France. Bastien-Lepage, a leading figure in late 19th-century French Naturalism, masterfully blends precise realism with visionary mysticism, portraying Joan kneeling amid wildflowers as celestial saints materialize in the summer ha...