Joan of Arc (painting)

Joan of Arc is an 1879 painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage, that belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in which it was also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.[1]

Joan of Arc (1879), by Jules Bastien-Lepage

French national hero Joan of Arc became an increasingly important figure in French sculpture, painting and culture in the 1870s and 1880s, following the country's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, after which the German Empire annexed Joan's (and Bastien-Lepage's) birthplace of Lorraine. Bastien-Lepage was no exception and his work was bought by the New York businessman Erwin Davis in 1880, having been exhibited at the Paris Salon earlier that year.[2]