This horizontal painting is tightly packed with colorfully dressed groups of soldiers and knights on horseback surging toward each other. The scene is created with small areas of vivid, mostly flat color, almost like a collage. Long lances and spears create a forest of diagonals among the battling men. The hands and the few faces we can see are painted with pale, peachy skin. The soldiers on the left side wear tunics and leggings in tones of pumpkin orange, sage green, rose pink, ruby red, or azure blue. Most wear pointed, silver helmets with wide brims, and many hold lances as they charge…
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The Turmoil of Conflict (Joan of Arc series: IV)

painter Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (French, 1850 - 1913)

c. late 1909-early 1913

Medium
oil and gold leaf on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.57 × 172.72 cm (29 3/4 × 68 in.) ; framed: 99.06 × 196.85 × 10.16 cm (39 × 77 1/2 × 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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