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| Keywords: Tete de Saint Maurice Orleans.jpg sallet belongs to the mid 15th century The postcard was sold in the Musée de sculpture comparée after 1937 Musée des monuments français but the head is identified as being kept in the Musée d'Orléans founded 1823 now Musée historique et archéologique de l'Orléanais or possibly the photograph is of a plaster cast of the original that was on exhibit in Paris Caption MUSÉE DE SCULPTURE COMPARÉE Tête de Saint Maurice conservée au Musée d'Orléans et provenant de St-Eloi longtemps désignée comme Jeanne d'Arc commencement du XVI<sup>e</sup> siècle -ND The idea that the head was modelled after Joan of Arc was very popular in 19th-century Romanticism enthusiastically defended by Walter Scott and still by Bernard Shaw although it seems that the identification with Joan of Arc had come to be held untenable before 1900 although it is still defended at least on the Internet today Louis-Ernest Barrias 1841 1905 produced a clay sculpture of the head of Jeanne d'Arc based on the artefact http //parismuseescollections paris fr/petit-palais/oeuvres/tete-de-jeanne-d-arc-casquee-ou-jeanne-d-arc infos-principales Petit Palais musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris inv no PPS1289 St-Éloi or St-Éloi-St-Maurice 14th-century parish church in Orléans just west of Orléans cathedral https //books google ch/books id kKUWAAAAYAAJ pg PA69 v onepage q f false Inline coordinates 47 9013 1 9083 formerly dedicated to Saint Maurice but was re-dedicated to St Éloi in 1388https //doc rero ch/record/17962/files/TA_525_2 pdf for which reason the head was identified as a statue of that Saint The argument was that as St Maurice is usually depicted as a bearded moor and this head is that of a clearly white young man or woman Walter Scott unquestionably the head of a girl of nineteen or so it stands to reason that it was directly modelled after St Joan Modern art historians assume that it is not from a statue of St Maurice at all but rather from a statue of St George dating to the early 16th century The church had been raided by Huguenots in 1567 and served as the seat of the guild of goldsmiths after that https //books google ch/books id xT8KAAAAIAAJ q T C3 AAte+casqu C3 A9e+d C3 A9couverte The head was discovered apparently with fragments of the body when the remains of a wall of the old church was torn down to make way for an extension of the sugar refinery of Louis-Auguste Pilté-Grenet d 1842 apparently a member of the Bande noire who had acquired the refinery from the Boislève family on 19 November 1827 ;References https //books google ch/books id ECBNAQAAMAAJ pg PA260 19 novembre 1827 En démolissant une partie du mur intérieur sud de l'ancienne église de Saint-Eloi d'Orléans pour y place une machine à l'usage de la raffinerie de M Pilté-Grenet qui y est étable on trouva les fragmens d'une statue en pierre dure représentant un guerrier ayant un casque et une cuirasse d'une sculpture drés-gothique quoique bien faite; M Pilté fit sur-le-champ hommage de cette statue au Musée où elle fut déposée dans le cabinet des antiquités 28-76-77 Tête casquée découverte en 1820 dans les démolitions des restes de l'ancienne église Saint-Eloi-Saint-Maurice considérée parfois mais à tort comme représentant Jeanne d'Arc; c'est en réalité une tête de St Georges Val de Loire; Maine Orléanais Touraine Anjou Hachette 1963 p 70 A more compelling representation of Joan's facial features can be seen in a sculpted head in bronze sic it is not actually in bronze but in stone now in the Musée Jeanne d'Arc in Orléans sic there is no such museum there was a museum with this name in Rouen until 2012 but it seems the head was never kept there The head is all that remains of a statue formerly to be found in the now demolished church of Saint-Maurice There is a tradition sic there is no such tradition speculation to this effect was published after the discovery of the head in 1827 than when Joan entered Orléans in triumph after the siege was raised a sculptor modelled the head of his statue of St Maurice from Joan herself https //books google ch/books id k9maU4D-QLUC pg PP2 lpg PP2 v onepage q f false Joan M Edmunds The Mission of Joan of Arc Temple Lodge Publishing 2008 https //books google ch/books id k9maU4D-QLUC pg PA40 lpg PA40 v onepage q f false 40f Michał Monikowski http //www monio info/2014/10/12/reconstructing-the-looks-of-joan-of-arc/ Reconstructing the looks of Joan of Arc 2014 http //www jeannedomremy fr/S_Questions/visagedejeanne htm Les représentations de Jeanne jeannedomremy fr old postcard c 1900 1918 photograph may be older c 1889 1900 ND either Étienne 1832-1918 or Louis-Antonin 1846-1914 Neurdein Lévy et Neurdein réunis - 44 rue Letellier - Parishttps //books google ch/books id Kd5cAgAAQBAJ pg PA992 v onepage q f false circa 1900 photograph c 1500 statue Other photographs http //www stjoan-center com/picessay/helmet jpghttp //i658 photobucket com/albums/uu305/FabrizioDeTemprafore/CopyofScreenshot_8copy_zpsed8e1d82 pnghttp //i658 photobucket com/albums/uu305/FabrizioDeTemprafore/bourassin jpghttp //www myartprints com/a/french-school/head-presumed-to-be-of-jo html Sculptures of heads People with helmets in art Sallets Orleans Musée historique et archéologique d'Orléans Jeanne d'Arc Statues of Saint Maurice in France Statues of Saint George in France Plaster casts in the Musée des monuments français Lévy et Neurdein réunis PD-old-70 | ||||
