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Jeanne d'Arc équestre

Equestrian Statue of Joan of Arc

Saint Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), The Maid of Orléans (ca. 1412 - 1431)
national heroine of France, beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War
(Wikipedia)

Mathurin Moreau & Pierre Le Nordez
Val d`Osne (Paris)
1899

Description

Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc.

Signature

fonderies d'art | du val d'osne | 58 voltaire paris

Annotation

The statue was commissioned by Albert Le Nordez, Bishop of Verdun from his uncle, the horse sculptor Pierre Le Nordez, and presented to his birth place Montebourg. The figure of Jeanne d'Arc is sculpted by Moreau.

Sculptors

Pierre Le Nordez (Vast 1814 - Saint-Maur 1892), French sculptor of horses.
Mathurin Moreau (Dijon 1822 - Paris 1912), French sculptor, worked for the Société anonyme des hauts-fourneaux et fonderies du Val d'Osne, anciennes masions J.P.V. André, Barbezat et Cie, Fourment Houille et Cie, J.J. Ducel et fils : Seringe frères et Noailles (short: Val d'Osne). (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Liste des œuvres d'art de la Manche.
Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 294-295.
Kees van Tilburg, From Marcus Aurelius to Kim Jong-il: The story of equestrian statues throughout the ages (Amstelveen, 2017). – see also the Equestrian statue website.

Location (N 49°29'19" - W 1°23'7")

Item Code: frbn095; Photograph: 5 August 2015
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