Joan of Arc, Victorious over the English, Enters Orléans
Jean-Jacques Scherrer · 1887
Why it's great
On May 8, 1429 Joan of Arc rides into Orléans as a hero after the English siege is broken, and the crowd cheers her. Jean-Jacques Scherrer painted the triumph in 1887.
🏛️ Part of history
The Hundred Years' War & Joan of Arc (1337–1453) — On May 8, 1429 Joan of Arc rides into Orléans as a hero after the English siege is broken, and the crowd cheers her.
Where to see it
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Jean-Jacques Scherrer was a French painter born in Lutterbach in Alsace in 1855. He worked in Paris, painting historical and patriotic pictures, especially of Joan of Arc, at a time when she was a national symbol after the war of 1870. He died in Paris in 1916.
