“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.”
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That’s great ❤️
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😎🌺🙏
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This is so real looking! Almost like a photo. Beautiful!
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I’m happy you enjoy this one, Mitzy. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 🙂🌺
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This is truly beautiful!
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts this morning, Sheila. I had to magnify my screen to see the angels in the background. The detail is amazing. 😎🌺
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Thank you, Sunny, for this painting as Joan of Arc is my patron and I have a few of her biographies.
I like the painter and his work.
Joanna
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My pleasure, Joanna! 😎🌺
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Thank you!
Joanna
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One of my grade school memories is of meeting Jean Seberg in a Marshalltown, Iowa eye clinic. Seberg was 17-year-old girl from Marshalltown when she was entered in an international talent search to find someone to play Joan of Arc in the 1957 film St. Joan. Seberg was cast after a reported 18,000 young women competed for the title role. I never saw the film, but it did have a screenplay by Graham Greene, was based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and was directed by Otto Preminger.
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Wow!!! Thanks for sharing your memory, Linda. I found clips on youtube – Jean Seberg was a lovely girl. 🙂
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I’ve seen this one at the Met several times, starting when I was young.
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You are fortunate, indeed, Steve! I would LOVE to see this one. 🙂
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Oh, wow, I love painting, Sunny! Thank you!❤️🙏
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My pleasure, always, Sister Renee! 😎❤️🙏
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That face is amazing when I zoomed in. You can almost hear and feel her thoughts.
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Yes!!! 😎🌺
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I first saw this painting as a young girl, and was captured by it.
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How marvelous, Anna! Thanks for sharing your memory. 😎🌺
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Have uploaded this image for use with this evening’s post “Companion in Arms,” with grateful mention. 🙋✨
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I look forward to reading! 😎🌺
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Melancholy and haunting.
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That expression on her face is remarkable. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Rosaliene. 🌺
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A stunning painting. How difficult must have been to achieve those ethereal images in the underpainting.
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This painting really is magical. What a master! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Vivienne. 🙂
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