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Ernest Meissonier

Joan of Arc

c. 1889
graphite, red chalk, colored washes, and black and white gouache

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Ernest Meisonnier found the original subject proposed for his Pantheon mural commission—Saint Geneviève—to be uninspiring and instead proposed an allegorical Triumph of France featuring Joan of Arc alongside Charlemagne and Napoleon Bonaparte, among others.

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