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The Vision and Inspiration (Joan of Arc series: I)
c. 1907-early 1909 · oil and gold leaf on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For Saint Joan of Arc · 30 May
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The sheep have not noticed. They lie in the grass with their legs folded under them while the girl on her knees among them lifts both hands toward a blaze of gold at the edge of the wood. Inside it stands Saint Michael in gilded armour, pointing with his sword the way she must go, and two women in gowns worked with gold at his sides, Catherine and Margaret, the whole vision laid in gold leaf on the canvas. A basket of wool has tipped over at her knee. Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel painted it in about 1907 to 1909 as the first of a series on Joan of Arc commissioned by the American senator William A. Clark, and the National Gallery of Art records it as oil and gold leaf, bequeathed to the Corcoran Gallery in 1926 and acquired in 2015. She told her judges the voice first came to her at about thirteen, in her father's garden, at noon. Here it is the whole sky. The sheep go on chewing.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Vision and Inspiration (Joan of Arc series: I)', 2015.19.34; open data and object page read 2026-10-15. · Catholic Encyclopedia (1910), 'St. Joan of Arc'.