Joan of Arc on horseback crying at the sight of a wounded Englishman

Localisation : The Small Gallery in the Logis
Année de création :1834
Artiste :Marie of Orleans, Duchess of Wurtemberg

Description

Daughter of Louis-Philippe and sister of the Duke of Aumale, Princess Marie of Orleans was a pupil of the painter Ary Scheffer, who first taught her drawing. But Marie revealed herself in the art of sculpture. A Romantic artist, her taste for the neo-Gothic style is visible in her religious and historic works. Contrary to the usual iconography depicting Joan as a war leader, Marie of Orleans chose to show Joan crying at the sight of a wounded Englishman. Her interest for this historic figure began when she read the Chronique de la Pucelle by Guillaume Cousinot, a book recommended by Jules Michelet, who was her history teacher. Marie was marked by Joan’s religious and compassionate nature. Having caught pulmonary tuberculosis, the artist princess died at the age of 25.