''Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII'' (French: ''Jeanne d’Arc au sacre du roi Charles VII'') is an 1854 painting by

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. It is now in the

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. The work merges the style of Ingres' teacher Jacques-Louis David with that of the troubador style.Patricia Fride R. Carrassat and Isabelle Marcadé, ''Movimientos de la pintura'', Spes Editorial, S.L., 2004, p. 47, The scene is marked by ambient light, sumptuous objects and rich colours.

History

In 1851, M. de Guisard, the state's Director of Fine Arts, gave Ingres a commission of 20,000 francs for a painting of a subject of Ingres's choosing.Condon, Patricia; Cohn, Marjorie B.; Mongan, Agnes (1983). ''In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres''. Louisville: The J. B. Speed Art Museum. p. 104. Bárbara Eschenburg and Ingeborg Güssow, "El Romanticismo y el Realismo" in ''Los maestros de la pintura occidental'',

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, 2005, p. 428, Ingres offered instead to fulfill the commission by finishing two paintings already in progress, ''Joan of Arc'' and a ''Virgin with a Host''. Both were subjects he had depicted in earlier works: he had made a wash drawing of

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 ...

as a model for an engraving by Pollet that was published in the 1840s in ''La Plutarque français, Vies des hommes et femmes illustres de la France'' by E. Mannechet. The drawing shows her in a pose similar to that of the later painting, dressed in armor and resting her hand on an altar, but with no accompanying figures. For the painting Ingres made new preparatory drawings using a nude model. He then made drawings in which he added the clothes and armour.P. F. R. Carrassat, ''Maestros de la pintura'', Spes Editorial, S.L., 2005. , p. 193 The final composition shows Joan at the coronation of Charles VII of France in

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, victorious and looking up to heaven, which she felt had given France the victory. To her right are three pages, the monk Jean Paquerel, and a servant. The servant is a self-portrait of the artist.

References

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