Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orléans
Eugène Lenepveu · 1890
Why it's great
Joan of Arc, a teenage peasant girl who said saints told her to save France, rides into battle with her banner to lift the siege of Orléans in 1429. Jules Eugène Lenepveu painted this scene around 1890 for the Panthéon in Paris.
🏛️ Part of history
The Hundred Years' War & Joan of Arc (1337–1453) — Joan of Arc, a teenage peasant girl who said saints told her to save France, rides into battle with her banner to lift the siege of Orléans in 1429.
Where to see it
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Eugène Lenepveu was a French painter born in Angers in 1819. He won the Prix de Rome, directed the French Academy in Rome for several years, and painted a famous series of scenes from the life of Joan of Arc in the Panthéon in Paris. He died in Paris in 1898.
