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unclegrimace:

The Vow of Louis XIII - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1824)

Ingres continued to paint in the Neoclassical style throughout his career, although the style came under attack from younger contemporaries like Géricault or Delacroix. The Vow of Louis XIII is a kind of neoclassical votive painting. In it Ingres adapted whole passages of Raphael’s Madonna di Foligno, but he also borrowed forms that were developed by the Carraccis.

The Vow of Louis XIII - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1824)

Ingres continued to paint in the Neoclassical style throughout his career, although the style came under attack from younger contemporaries like Géricault or Delacroix. The Vow of Louis XIII is a kind of neoclassical votive painting. In it Ingres adapted whole passages of Raphael’s Madonna di Foligno, but he also borrowed forms that were developed by the Carraccis.

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Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII (1854). Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867). Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris.

Joan is depicted in plate armor holding her banner as she attends in Reims Cathedral the coronation of Charles VII , the dauphin she helped achieve the throne. In real life, Joan never wore plate armor, but it was a common form of artistic license among later artists.

Joan of Arc (c1412–31), a 17 year old peasant girl, inspired a French army to break the English siege of the French city of Orléans and to win other important battles.