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Execution / Manufacturing / Production: Gérault d'Areaubert, Charles Claude (manufacture)

Bust of Joan of Arc

  • Delatouche, Patrice
  • Delatouche, Patrice

Production: 1750 - 1799
Estate: Ceramics
Technique(s) : Biscuit
Dimensions : Height : 15.8 cm ; Width : 6 cm ; Depth : 5 cm
Inventory no.: 2015.1.1

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Jeanne d'Arc's long hair - she didn't get a short haircut until the following century - was dressed in whimsical Renaissance fashion. Dressed in a finely embellished gown, she sports a feathered hat. The modelling of the face and the details of the toilette are delicately handled. The cookie face is adorned with two necklaces that underline the figure's elegance. This statuette is directly inspired by the Portrait of the Hôtel de Ville. Despite doubts as to its attribution, the bust illustrates the valuable soft porcelain production of the Manufacture d'Orléans. In 1753, Jacques Etienne Dessaux de Romilly (1711-1757) created the "Manufacture royale de terre blanche purifiée", which was taken over in 1782 by Charles Claude Gérault d'Areaubert (1716/17-1782). The Manufacture offers a pictorial iconography of the young woman, at a time when historians are beginning to take an interest in her character. The museum's cookie is a rare and important addition to the other busts of Jeanne already in the historical museum's collections, but which unfortunately suffered in the fire of 1940. There is a counterpart to this bust, in which Jeanne is depicted as a warrior, with her hair cut short.

Provenance

Purchased by the Société des Amis des Musées d'Orléans from Anne Besnard, antique dealer (Saint-Ouen), 2015.
Offered by the Société des Amis des Musées d'Orléans to the museum, October 4, 2015.

School

France

Location

Museum of History and Archaeology

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