Joan of Arc
Cleveland Museum of Art

Joan of Arc

Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891) · c. 1889

graphite, red chalk, colored washes, and black and white gouache
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Ernest Meisonnier found the original subject proposed for his Pantheon mural commission—Saint Geneviève—to be uninspiring and instead proposed an allegorical Triumph of France featuring Joan of Arc alongside Charlemagne and Napoleon Bonaparte, among others.

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