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Dozens of people, all with pale peach skin, cluster tightly beyond a person kneeling at the center of this horizontal painting. The composition is filled from edge to edge with colorful patterns in the clothing, a wall-covering in the background, an area rug, and the tile floor, creating a collage-like effect. The men wear floor-length robes or tunics and stockings, and most wear hats or turbans. The women wear long, high-waisted dresses and tall, cone-shaped hats with veils or fabric draped from the peaks. Their garments are patterned in tones of burgundy, rust, and crimson red, forest and spring green, marigold orange, lemon and golden yellow, rose pink, and azure blue. The person kneeling at the center has chin-length blond hair, and wears a black, long-sleeved tunic, pointed black shoes, and gray stockings. That person faces our left in profile and raises a straight right arm to shoulder height, palm down and fingers extended, toward a standing man wearing a royal-blue robe to our left. Pale yellow, mauve-pink, and white flowers are strewn on the tiled floor in front of the crowd.

Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel

Her Appeal to the Dauphin (Joan of Arc series: II), 1906

West Building, Ground Floor - Gallery 4

Medium

oil and gold leaf on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75.57 × 170.18 cm (29 3/4 × 67 in.)

framed: 98.11 × 191.77 × 9.53 cm (38 5/8 × 75 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.35

Artists / Makers

Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (painter) French, 1850 - 1913

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: M.Boutet de Monvel_ 1906_

Provenance

Commissioned by William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1981: The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 31 March - 14 June 1981, no catalogue.

2001: Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2006: Joan of Arc, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 November 2006 - 21 January 2007, no. 2, repro.

Bibliography

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part I. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 22-23, no. B.