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Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc

Hartmann et Fils Manufactory1817

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Six scenes from the life of Jeanne d'Arc (1412–31) are depicted, her march on Paris (upper left); her arrow wound being dressed during the siege of Paris (upper right); the capture of the Tourelles, which liberated Orléans from the British (lower left); Jeanne praying before the shrine of St. Catherine, symbolizing the Church of St. Catherine-de-Fierboys, where she received her sword (left center); captured with her brothers, she is brought before Philip the Good (center right); and her burning at the stake in Rouen (lower center). On an obliquely-placed stone slab in the scene showing the taking of Orléans is the artist's signature [in ink].

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  • Title: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc
  • Creator: Hartmann et Fils Manufactory
  • Date Created: 1817
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Gift of Bridget Mahon
  • Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash on three joined sheets of brown wove paper, laid down
  • Signed: In pen and black ink on an obliquely placed stone slab in the scene showing the taking of Orléans: "Ch. Chasselat inv. et del. / Paris --1817"
  • Paper Support: Brown wove paper
  • Inscribed: In pen and black ink, lower left: Britannia (on cloak of dead soldier)In pen and black ink, left center: France (on Jeanne's standard)
  • Exhibitions: New York - CHNDM "The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource" rotation 2 July 8 - December 2, 1991Newark, NJ - Newark Art Museum "Textile Exhibition" March 1 - September 7, 1937
  • Dimensions: 57 x 79.2 cm (22 7/16 x 31 3/16 in.)
  • Bibliography: Clouzot and Morris, "Painted and Printed Fabrics", NY, 1927 [illus. pl. xxxvii]Francis Morris, CUM Chronicle, New York, 1935, vol.I, plate 10, no. 6Richard Wunder, CUM Chronicle, New York, 1935, vol.II, no. 8, p. 272
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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