Jeanne d'Arc à Domrémy
Henri Chapu
(1833 -
1891)
Rez-de-chaussée,
Allée centrale des sculptures
Artwork location
19th-century France was fascinated by the figure of Joan of Arc, an historical, mythified heroine who figured in the readily anti-British nationalist movement in the second half of the 19th century. Henri Chapu, a classical sculptor who explored a sincere, elegant form of naturalism with great finesse, chose to represent not the warrior maiden in a suit of armour but the shepherdess from Lorraine listening to the voices asking her to help the king to liberate the kingdom.
Presented at the last Salon under the second Empire in 1870, the plaster cast was made into a marble statue in 1872 and enjoyed a considerable success: the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine after the defeat of Sedan made Joan of Arc a national emblem and a secular saint, well before her canonisation by the Vatican in 1920. Chapu's sculpture was one of the most famous images of Joan of Arc in France, widely circulated in all sizes and all materials well after 1900.
Presented at the last Salon under the second Empire in 1870, the plaster cast was made into a marble statue in 1872 and enjoyed a considerable success: the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine after the defeat of Sedan made Joan of Arc a national emblem and a secular saint, well before her canonisation by the Vatican in 1920. Chapu's sculpture was one of the most famous images of Joan of Arc in France, widely circulated in all sizes and all materials well after 1900.
Artist(s)
Title(s)
titre principal : Jeanne d'Arc à Domrémy
titre principal : Jeanne d'Arc à Domrémy
Date
1872
Others accession number
Accession number
RF 166
Description
statue en marbre
Dimensions
H. 117 ; L. 92 ; P. 83 cm; pds. 552 kg.
Designation
statue
sur socle
Inscription(s)
Sur la plinthe à gauche : h Chapu
Place of conservation
musée d'Orsay
- 1871, achat au salon (Arrêté rétroactif. Acquis 10 000 F)
- 1874, 17 janvier, musée du Luxembourg
- 1908, 10 février, musée du Louvre
- 1967 à 1998, dépôt à la mairie d'Amboise
- 1998, 15 octobre, retrour musée du Louvre
- 1999, 21 décembre, musée d'Orsay
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Modality of acquisition
achat au Salon
Acquistion Date
1871
- Salon - palais des Champs Elysées - France, Paris, 1872, n° 1595
- Exposition Universelle : Welt-Ausstellung 1873 in Wien - organisme inconnu - Autriche, Vienne, 1873, n° 874
- Exposition Universelle - palais du Trocadéro - France, Paris, 1878, n° 1136
- Exposition Universelle - Champ-de-Mars - France, Paris, 1889, n° 45
- Rodin Rediscovered - National Gallery of Art - Etats-Unis, Washington, 1981-1982, n° 4
- La Jeanne d'Arc à Domrémy par Chapu (1870-1872) - musée d'Orsay - France, Paris, 1999
General bibliography
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Pingeot, Anne, Images de Jeanne d'Arc - Hommage pour le 550e anniversaire de la libération d'Orléans et du Sacre, '80 ans de Jeanne d'Arc sculptées" : exposition... [Paris, Hôtel de la monnaie, juin-septembre 1979], Paris, Hôtel de la Monnaie, 1979, p. 184, 202 (32 bis, 33), 268
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Pingeot, Anne ; Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette ; Lemaistre, Isabelle, Sculpture française au XIXe siècle, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1982
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Papet, Edouard, 48/14 La revue du Musée d'Orsay, "La Jeanne d'Arc à Domrémy par Chapu (1870-1872)", Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999, p. 84, 91-95
Summary catalog
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Pingeot, Anne ; Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette ; Margerie, Laure de, Musée d'Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1986, p. 268
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