A woman to our right kneels with her hands in prayer as she looks to our left at a vision in a landscape in this horizontal painting. The vision is of a person wearing gold armor, who is flanked by two more people, all encased an oval-shaped full-body halo. The people all have smooth, pale skin, and the women have ash-blond hair. The armored person, Saint Michael, has copper-colored hair and he hovers, feet hanging loose, low over the ground. His body is angled sharply to our right. Both of his arms are outstretched in front of him at shoulder height, and he holds up a gold sword with his…
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The Vision and Inspiration (Joan of Arc series: I)

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

c. 1907-early 1909

Medium
oil and gold leaf on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75.57 × 168.91 cm (29 3/4 × 66 1/2 in.) ; framed: 98.43 × 193.04 × 10.16 cm (38 3/4 × 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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