Joan of Arc

ArtistWorkshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, b. 1577, Siegen Westphalia; d. 1640, Antwerp)

Datecirca 1620 (?) and after 1640

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions71 1/2 x 45 3/4 in. (181.6 x 116.2 cm)
Frame: 85 1/2 x 61 1/4 x 4 5/8 in. (217.2 x 155.6 x 11.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and gift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object number52.9.111

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Collections

ProvenanceCreated Antwerp, Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1620 (?) and after 1640; collection of the artist (?). Probably Rubens’s studio [1]. Probably Jan Baptista Cachiopin de la Redo, Antwerp [2]. Probably David [de] Amory, Amsterdam; [Amsterdam, June 22, 1772, no. 4] [3]. [Probably sale, Amsterdam, October 16, 1736, no. 1]. Probably Johann Heinrich von Gise; [probably sale, Bonn, 1ff. August 1742, no. 50, bought in?] [4]; [probably sale, Bonn, 30ff. August 1742, no. 87]. Possibly Dr. Bragge, London; [Mr. Prestage, London, March 20, 1750/51, no. 59] [5]; Abraham Johan Ant. Schaffhausen (1756–1824), Cologne. Sibilla von Wittgenstein (d. 1918); [her sale, Lempertz, Cologne, May 13–16, 1919, no. 656, as Jeanne d’Arc by Rubens]; D. Hjorth Jr., Malmö, Sweden; Baron von Platen, Sweden; [Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] Inventory of 1640, no. 159 (as “La Pucelle d’Orleans sur toile” [The Maid of Orleans on canvas]).
[2] Inventory of 1662 (as “Een contrefeytsel van de Maecht van Orleans, van Rubens” [A copy of the Maid of Orleans, by Rubens]).
[3] As “De Maegd van Orleans in’t volle Harnas,levensgrrote knielende voor een Cruxifix door P. P. Rubens.” (The Maid of Orleans in Full Armor, Life Size Kneeling Before a Crucifix by P. P. Rubens)
[4] As “La Pucelle d’Orleans.” (The Maid of Orleans)
[5] As “The Pucelle D’Orleans, Rubens.” (The Maid of Orleans, Rubens)