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Joan of Arc

by Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879

Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage

Artist

Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of Naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and paved the way for the development of Impressionism. Émile Zola described Bastien-Lepage's work as "impressionism corrected, sweetened and adapted to the taste of the crowd."

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Artwork

Joan of Arc is an oil on canvas painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage, from 1879. It was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. It is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

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Artist
Jules Bastien-Lepage
Year
1879
Movement
Realism
Country
France
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art