| Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel’s Joan of Arc Series celebrates the remarkable
life of the maiden who liberated the city of Orléans from siege in 1429
and turned the tide of the Hundred Years War between France and England. The
artist was born in Orléans, where the memory of the Maid of Orléans
has lived on for centuries. . . .
- Nora M. Heimann, Assistant Professor of Art History
Catholic University of America, Washington, DC |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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