A young blond person stands in the center of a dimly lit room facing dozens of men in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale skin, though many are in shadow. The central person, Joan of Arc, stands in profile facing our left. She clutches one hand at her chest and the other extends in front of her, fingers arcing up. She has chin-length hair and bangs. Her brow is furrowed and her lips parted. She wears a lapis-blue, high-necked tunic over smoke-gray stockings and pointed black shoes. A metal band encircles her waist and a chain and manacle hang from one of two rings there. The…
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The Trial of Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc series: VI)

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

c. late 1909-early 1910

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 × 9.53 cm (38 1/2 × 76 × 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
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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