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(Église Sainte Jeanne d'Arc (interieur))

Jeanne d'Arc au sacre

Joan of Arc at the Coronation

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)

G. Bachini & André Besqueut
1934 (1912)

Description

Plaster statue of Joan of Arc in the hall of the church.

Signature

g. bachini lyon

Sculptors

G. Bachini, French sculptor from Lyon.
André Besqueut (Saint-Christophe-sur-Dolaison 1850 - Vals-près-Le-Puy 1942), French sculptor. The replicas of his statue "Jeanne d'Arc au sacre" (1912) were made by Estoup et Cazes in Le Puy-en-Velay, often in plaster.

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 47.

Locatie (N 45°45'6" - E 4°52'38") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra091; Photograph: 11 August 2018
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