Two by two, monks wearing black and white, hooded robes lead a procession headed by an armored woman on horseback, Joan of Arc, on a rutted, sand-brown road in this horizontal painting. Most of the monks fold their hands at their waist, and the others tuck their hands into voluminous sleeves. One monk holds a tall gold cross and one a horizontal forked banner decorated with two angels. Another pair of monks in pecan-brown, hooded robes walk beside Joan’s butterscotch-brown horse. Joan wears a pale, silvery helmet and full armor, and she holds her fingertips together in prayer as she looks…
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The Maid in Armor on Horseback (Joan of Arc series: III)

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

c. 1908-late 1909

Medium
oil and gold leaf on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.57 × 171.45 cm (29 3/4 × 67 1/2 in.) ; framed: 97.79 × 193.04 × 10.16 cm (38 1/2 × 76 × 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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