On this date 576 years ago , Joan of Arc was handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon for interrogation . The nineteen - yr - old French heroine is today a much darling figure celebrated in Scripture , picture show , and painting . One of the most famous paintings of Joan is Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres ' " Joan of Arc at Coronation of Charles VII.“ In honor of Joan and Ingres , who conk out in January 1867 , let ’s take a closer expression at " Joan of Arc at Coronation of Charles VII.“
1 . Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was 73 when he paint " Joan of Arc at Coronation of Charles VII.“ A turgid portion of the work for the painting was done by helper . A year later , one of Ingres ' pupil create an almost identical painting . The only major difference ? In the student ’s picture , Joan is n’t wearing a annulus .
2 . Both an artist and player himself , Ingres became set-aside to Marie - Anne - Julie Forestier , a painter and player , in 1806 . The engagement fall apart , though , when Ingres resist to return to Paris from Rome after his Salon display that yr meet harsh criticism from the public and other artists . Seven class later , he married Madeleine Chappelle , whom he had court through letter of the alphabet and to whom he had purport without ever meet her . The wedding was quite happy , and he was devastated when she died in 1849 . Three year subsequently , he married Delphine Ramel , and enjoyed just as happy a marriage as his first one .
3 . Joan ’s plate armor in the picture was artistic licence ( common among many artists ) ; she never fag plate armor in real life .
4 . Napoleon ’s reign collapsed while Ingres was in Rome , lead Ingres stranded without patronage . He was left to gain his livelihood drawing small pencil portrayal of tourer , work out that he weigh humble . Visitors would involve , " Is this where the valet de chambre who cast the small portrait lives?“ Ingres would answer , " No the humanity who lives here is a painter!“
5 . Ingres only give ear school for six years , as his shoal close when he was only 11 . Although he later go on to study artistic production and music at the Acadà © mie Royale de Peinture , Sculpture et Architecture , he rest insecure about his want of schooling .
6 . When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres died , his studio contain over 4,000 drawings , as well as several major paintings and his violin ( he was second fiddler in an orchestra as a teen and continue to playact the rest of his aliveness ) . The graphics and the violin were bequeathed to the metropolis museum of Montauban , which has now become the Musà © e Ingres .
