Who painted “Joan of Arc”?

“Joan of Arc” was painted by Jules Bastien-Lepage in 1879. Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Academic Art: smooth, glossy surfaces and idealised figures, usually from myth, the Bible or history; Realism shows ordinary people and Impressionism visible, broken strokes.

Jules Bastien-Lepage (1 November 1848 – 10 December 1884) was a French painter closely associated with the beginning of Naturalism, an artistic style that grew out of the Realist movement and paved the way for the development of Impressionism. Wikipedia

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More by Jules Bastien-Lepage

“October (Saison d'octobre)”, 1878
“Village Love”, 1882
“Hay Making”, 1877
“The Beggar”, 1880
“The Wood Gatherer”, 1881
“Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt holding a statue of Orpheus”, 1879
“The artist's grandfather”, 1874
“The grape harvest”, 1880