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L-M Boutet de Monvel’s “Joan of Arc”

08 Friday Jan 2016

Posted by michelinewalker in Children's Literature, France

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Jeanne d’Arc by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, 1896

 

Jeanne d'Arc, p. 3
Jeanne d’Arc, p. 3
Jeanne d'Arc, p. 7 (detail)
Jeanne d’Arc, p. 7 (detail)

Above is Jeanne d’Arc (6 January c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) as depicted by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (18 October 1850 – 16 March 1913).

An angel has just appeared to tell Joan that she is to save France, whose king, Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), has not been crowned.  During the Hundred Years’ War, fought between 1337 and 1453, parts of northern France: Guyenne, Paris and Reims, were occupied by Duke Philip III of Burgundy. After the Battle of Agincourt (1415), English King Henry V, married Catherine de Valois, the daughter of French king Charles VI.

By virtue of the Treaty of Troyes, signed on 21 May 1420, King Henry V of England and his heirs would inherit the throne of France upon the death of King Charles VI of France. Philip V died in 1422, but Catherine had given birth to a son. Although Philip VI reigned as king of England, he was nevertheless the disputed king of France.

The Siege of Orléans: a turning-point

Joan of Arc did save France. After the Siege of Orléans (1428 – 1429), Philip V‘s dream of conquering France started to crumble. The uncrowned king of France, Charles VII, was crowned at Reims. However, Charles, Duke of Orleans (24 November 1394 – 5 January 1465), who had been captured at Agincourt, in 1415, was not released until 1440. He was a prince of the blood, or possible heir to the throne of France.

When he returned to France, Charles, Duke of Orleans, married a very young Maria of Cleves. Their son, one of three children born to the couple, would reign as king Louis XII.

Joan of Arc arrested and burned at the stake

On 23 May 1430, Joan of Arc was captured at Compiègne, by members of the Burgundian faction and handed over to the English. She was accused of various crimes and tried at Rouen by the Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon. She was convicted and burned at the stake on 31 May 1431. She had had visions, which could lead to her being accused of witchcraft or to her being deemed heretical. She had been visited by the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine.

Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel

Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Bernard’s father, was born in Orléans to an accomplished family. He was raised in Paris and studied at the Julian Academy. He was an ‘academic’ painter, but he accepted to paint posters and became an illustrator. His Jeanne d’Arc (1896) is considered his finest book, followed by his 1883 Chansons de France pour les petits Français, both published by E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie. His Jeanne à la Cour de Chinon, shown at the Exposition universelle of 1990, earned him a gold medal.

Louis-Maurice was a successful artist. His artwork was often exhibited in the United States. In c. 1911, he in fact travelled to the United States and received several commissions, but he fell ill. Louis-Maurice had contracted a bronchial ailment during the Franco-Prussian War (1870), which made a winter visit to Chicago dangerous.

He died two years later, in 1913.

RELATED ARTICLES

  • A Glimpse at the Boutet de Monvel Dynasty (3 January 2016)
  • Charles d’Orléans: a Prince & a Poet (17 February 2015)←
  • Illustrating Fashion Magazines: Barbier & Colleagues (16 August 2014)
  • George Barbier’s Fêtes galantes (14 August 2014)
  • Charles d’Orléans: Portrait of an Unlikely Poet (17 September 2012)←
  • The Art of Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1 September 2012)
  • The Ballets Russes, Vaslav Nijinsky & George Barbier (27 July 2012)

Sources and Resources

Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel: Jeanne d’Arc
https://archive.org/details/jeannedarc00boutuoft
Photo credit: Internet Archives

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Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories

10 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by michelinewalker in Children's Literature, Fables, Fairy Tales

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Childood's Favorites and Fairy Stories, Children's Literature, fables, fairy tales, Poems, Songs

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Thumbelina came to live with the Field-Mouse. (Gutenberg [EBook #19993])

Fairy Tales and Fables: a Page

Yesterday, I had every intention of posting a short article on Anansi, a folktale character black slaves brought to the Americas. However, I thought I should first provide a list of posts on fables and fairy tales. It turned into a lengthy process because I had not kept a list of RELATED ARTICLES for most posts on fairy tales.

The page I posted yesterday is therefore incomplete. I will add a list of fables later. I kept a record of these posts, but must add the date on which each was published. I have a list of posts of fables, but each post needs a date. It seems that posts do not exist unless they are listed.

Childhood Favorites and Fairy Stories

However, I would like to invite you to take a peek at the Project Gutenberg’s EBook #19993. It is a collection of literary works for children and it includes poems, limericks, the words to songs, and fables and fairy tales originating from several countries.

The copyright was obtained in 1909, but the book was published in 1927 by the University Society of New York. By 1927, its editors had died. These are Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale William Byron Forbus. William Byron Forbus died in 1927. All three editors are well-known authors, but we may have forgotten them. Today is the day we remember them.

In this collection, the art work is not always attributed to a specific illustrator, which is the fate of the image featured at the top of this post, that of Thumbelina. It’s a little gem. But the illustration contains initials: O. A.. The editors have indicated that “[m]any of the illustrations in this volume are reproduced by special permission of E. P. Dutton & Company, owners of the American rights.”

Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories is also an Internet Archive Publication. It can be accessed by clicking on its title. There are a few copies of this book online perhaps indicating its importance. Combined with An Argosy of Fables, this book is a lovely discovery.

The book is entitled:

Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories
Volume 1

I have not found a Volume 2.

Several authors are represented in this collection, including Shakespeare. However, I have chosen to end this short post using a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It’s a lullaby.

“SWEET AND LOW”

Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me:
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother’s breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

With warm greetings to all of you. ♥

Childhood Favorites is told by LibriVox on YouTube.

Johannes Brahms’ Lullaby

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