A wide hall or church space is filled with throngs of people focused on a young man kneeling in front of a clutch of clergymen in this horizontal painting. The people all have smooth, pale skin. Their clothing is intricately patterned with areas of vivid color, creating a collage-like effect. The ten clergymen stand on a low platform to our left. Most wear yellow and gold-colored vestments and conical, split mitre hats though one wears a scarlet-red robe and brimmed hat. The kneeling young man they face, the Dauphin, is draped in an azure-blue cloak adorned with gold fleur-de-lis and a…
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The Crowning at Rheims of the Dauphin (Joan of Arc series: V)

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

1907

Medium
oil and gold leaf on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.57 × 178.44 cm (29 3/4 × 70 1/4 in.) ; framed: 97.79 × 202.25 × 10.16 cm (38 1/2 × 79 5/8 × 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
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