Joan of Arc by Fremiet in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 2009

European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

Joan of Arc
Made in France, Europe

c. 1874

Emmanuel Frémiet, French, 1824 - 1910

Gilded bronze
29 x 18 x 7 inches (73.7 x 45.7 x 17.8 cm)

* Gallery 154, European Art 1850-1900, first floor (Annenberg Galleries)

1959-11-1
Gift of the family of Frederic H. Strawbridge, 1959

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In about 1874, Frémiet created a model for a life-size statue of Joan of Arc, the medieval hero who fought to liberate France, of which six large-scale casts were eventually commissioned, including ones for Paris and Nancy, France, and Philadelphia. The Philadelphia sculpture currently stands across from the Philadelphia Museum of Art at 25th Street and Kelly Drive. The work seen here is a later reduction of the statue.

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