''Joan of Arc'' is a monumental

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sculpture by French sculptor Paul Dubois. It depicts

Joan of Arc Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= �an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat ...

both as a warrior and as a divinely inspired visionary. The original plaster was presented at the

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in 1889, on a commission by the city of

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in 1887. Dubois donated it in 1902 to the Musée Paul-Dubois-Alfred Boucher in

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, now an annex of the

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. An earlier plaster version is at the

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ("ny" means "new" in Danish; "Glyptotek" comes from the Greek root ''glyphein'', to carve, and ''theke'', storing place), commonly known simply as Glyptoteket, is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The collection ...

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. There are four casts of the sculpture in public settings: * in front of Saint-Augustin Church in

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(1895), cast by Edmond Gruet Jeune, purchased in 1895 by the Fine Arts Directorate of the French Government and placed on its current location in 1900; * in front of

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(1896), cast by with finishings by , inaugurated by President

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1896; * in front of St Maurice's Church, Strasbourg (1897), cast by E. Gruet Jeune, initially intended for the

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; then placed in Strasbourg in front of the Palais du Rhin in 1922, damaged by German occupation forces during

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, and placed in its current location in 1965; * on Meridian Hill Park (1922), reduced-scale cast by Rudier, inaugurated on January 6, 1923, in presence of President Warren G. Harding.

Gallery

File:Jeanne D'Arc by Dubois (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).jpg, Non-final plaster version, at

File:Entrance to cathedral of Reims, France, and equestrian statue of Joan of Arc LCCN2002699879.jpg, Reims: original placement, as if riding from the Cathedral File:Statue jeanne d'arC 73723.jpg, Reims: protection during World War I File:P1030127 Paris VIII Satue Jeanne d'Arc et église Saint-Augustin rwk.JPG, Paris: current position in front of Saint-Augustin Church File:Jeanne d'Arc Paul Dubois Paris 8e GP.jpg, Paris: detail File:Jeanne d'Arc Paul Dubois Paris 8e socle.jpg, Paris: inscription on pedestal File:Joan of Arc.jpg, Washington: Meridian Hill Park

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