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Jeanne d'Arc

Joan of Arc

Saint Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), The Maid of Orléans (ca. 1412 - 1431)
national heroine of France, beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War
(Wikipedia)

Élie Le Goff père & Princesse Marie d' Orléans
1916-17

Description

Wooden statue of Jeanne d'Arc sculpted after the model of Marie d'Orléans, called Prière avant le combat ('The Prayer before the Battle'). Jeanne d'Arc is depicted in armour with her hands folded before here and holding a sword with her right hand. Behind her are her helmet and armoured gloves.
The statue is flanked by (plaster?) statues of Saint Catherine and Saint Marguerite.

Around the column below the statues are five wooden panels with scenes from the life of Jeanne d'Arc:

jeanne d'arc ecoutant ses voix - Jeanne d'Arc listening to her voices
le sacre de charles vii - Coronation of Charles VII in Reims
entree triumphale a orleans - Triumphal entry in Orléans
supplice de jeanne d'arc - Execution of Jeanne d'Arc
apotheose

Jeanne d'Arc listening to her voices

Triumphal entry in Orléans

Coronation of Charles VII in Reims

Execution of Jeanne d'Arc and Apotheose

Inscription(s)

Signed: (the wooden panels) E Le Goff 1916, resp. 1917

Jeanne d'Arc - Timeline

1412 - Approx date of birth
1425 - Visions of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Rheims for his coronation
1428, May - Went to Vaucouleurs to ask garrison commander, Count Robert de Baudricourt, to send her to the royal French court at Chinon, but is sent away.
1429, February - Baudricourt allows Jeanne to join the Dauphin at Chinon.
1429, May 8 - Lifting of the siege of Orleans
1429, July 17 - Coronation of Charles VII in Reims
1430, May 23 - Captured at Compiègne
1431, May 30 - Executed at Rouen
1871 - After the defeat of 1871, in many French towns and villages statues of Jeanne d'Arc are erected.

Sculptors

Élie Le Goff père (1858-1938), French sculptor from Saint-Brieuc, his three sons Elie fils, Paul and Henri were also sculptor, but all died in World War I.
Princesse Marie d'Orléans (Palermo 1813 - Pisa 1839), second daugher of king Louis-Philippe (Wikipedia). As an accomplished sculptor she sculpted in 1838 a statue of Jeanne d'Arc, combining in her representation of the patriottic saint the virtues of heroism and piety. Numerous copies and imitations are made.

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique: Tome second (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2011), p. 141-144.

Locatie (N 48°33'39" - W 3°9'3") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbr109; Photograph: 31 May 2012
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