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AT-00011144Joan of Arc
About the Artwork
This drawing is a rare study relating to Ernest Meissonier's never-realized mural for the Pantheon in Paris. After seeking and receiving the commission in 1874, Meisonnier procrastinated on the project for many years. Here, the French heroine Joan of Arc appears at center, without a helmet, on a bare white horse, staring ahead with steadfast calm. The figure of Joan in this drawing appears to correspond to the subject in a now-lost design for the complete painting, which Meissonier presented in 1889.
Inscriptions
Signed with monogram, lower left
Provenance
1891-1893: Estate of the artist 1893: (his studio sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 18-20, 1893, no. 464) after 1893-1899: Alfred Hartmann, Mulhouse 1899: (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 12-15, 1899, no. 92) 1975: (sale, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, October 3, 1975, no. 169, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) 1975-2008: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2008-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Exposition Meissonier. Galerie Georges Petit (organizer). French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815–1891)
- Date
- c. 1889
- Medium
- graphite, red chalk, colored washes, and black and white gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 18.8 x 30.3 cm (7 3/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2008.358
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