Dozens of people, all with pale peach skin, cluster tightly beyond a person kneeling at the center of this horizontal painting. The composition is filled from edge to edge with colorful patterns in the clothing, a wall-covering in the background, an area rug, and the tile floor, creating a collage-like effect. The men wear floor-length robes or tunics and stockings, and most wear hats or turbans. The women wear long, high-waisted dresses and tall, cone-shaped hats with veils or fabric draped from the peaks. Their garments are patterned in tones of burgundy, rust, and crimson red, forest and…
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Her Appeal to the Dauphin (Joan of Arc series: II)

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

1906

Medium
oil and gold leaf on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.57 × 170.18 cm (29 3/4 × 67 in.) ; framed: 98.11 × 191.77 × 9.53 cm (38 5/8 × 75 1/2 × 3 3/4 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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