Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance

Painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance

Artist	Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Year	1863
Medium	oil painting on canvas
Movement	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Subject	Joan of Arc
Dimensions	61.2 cm × 53.2 cm (24.1 in × 20.9 in)^[1]
Location	Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession	1996

Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance is a 1863 painting by the English artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was bought for the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCS) at the Piccadilly Gallery in 1996, as the first Rossetti painting ever bought by a French museum. Its inventory number is 55.996.8.1.^[1]^[2]

The model for the painting has a noticeably big chin and strong neck. She may have been a Mrs. Beyer from Germany, or an acquaintance of Rossetti's named Agnes Manetti.^[3] The painting is on permanent loan from the MAMCS to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Palais Rohan.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Siffer, Florian (February 2008). Les collections du musée d'art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg. Strasbourg: Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. p. 51. ISBN 978-2-901833-82-6.
^ "Jeanne d'Arc embrassant l'épée de la Délivrance (Joan of Arc Kissing Sword of Delivrance)". navigart.fr/mamcs. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
^ "Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance". Rossetti Archive. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
^ Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 240–241. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Paintings

List of paintings
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849)
Ecce Ancilla Domini (1850)
Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (1855)
Bocca Baciata (1859)
Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance (1863)
The Beloved (1865–1866)
Monna Vanna (1866)
Monna Rosa (1867)
Venus Verticordia (1864–1868)
Pia de' Tolomei (c. 1868)
Beata Beatrix (c. 1864–1870)
Dante's Dream (1871)
Water Willow (1871)
Veronica Veronese (1872)
Lady Lilith (1866–1873)
La Ghirlandata (1873)
Proserpine (1874)
Roman Widow (1874)
A Sea-Spell (1877)
The Blessed Damozel (1875–1878)
A Vision of Fiammetta (1880)
The Day Dream (1880)
Mnemosyne (1876–1881)
Found (1854–1881)

Murals

Oxford Union murals (with other artists, 1857–1859)

Drawings

Ligeia Siren (1873)

Family

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Germ
Hogarth Club
Morris & Co.
- Tristram and Isoude stained glass panels
Great Bookcase
Rossetti and His Circle (1922 book)
Dante's Inferno (1967 film)
The Love School (1975 miniseries)
Desperate Romantics (2009 miniseries)

Joan of Arc

Life and background

Maid of Lorraine prophecies
Hundred Years' War
Loire Campaign
- Siege of Orléans
- Jargeau
- Meung-sur-Loire
- Beaugency
Siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier
Name
Trial
Retrial
Canonization

Family and
contemporaries

Cultural depictions

Poetry	The Tale of Joan of Arc (1429) Joan of Arc (1796)
Paintings	Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance (1863) Joan of Arc (1879)
Statues	Jeanne d'Arc (Frémiet) New York City Paris Portland, Oregon Washington, D.C. Jeanne au Sacre
Plays	The Maid of Orleans (1801) Saint Joan (1923) The Lark (1952) The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431 (1952) I, Joan (2022)
Films	Joan of Arc (1900) Joan the Woman (1916) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Saint Joan the Maid (1929) Joan of Arc (1935) Joan of Arc (1948) Daughters of Destiny (1954) Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954) Saint Joan (1957) The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) Joan the Maid (1994) The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) The Silence of Joan (2011) Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017) Joan of Arc (2019)
Television	Saint Joan (1967) Joan of Arc (1999 miniseries)
Operas	Giovanna d'Arco (1845) The Maid of Orleans (1881) Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna (written 1943) The Triumph of St. Joan (1950) The Survival of St. Joan (1970) Das Mädchen aus Domrémy (1976)