Joan of Arc Listening to the Heavenly Voices

Artist: Robert Porter Bringhurst, American, 1855–1925
Date: 1885
Material: Marble
made in: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
Classification: Sculpture, stone & mineral
Collection: American Art
Current Location: On View, Gallery 327
Dimensions: 15 × 7 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (38.1 × 19.7 × 19.1 cm)
bust and base, height: 21 in. (53.3 cm)
base: 6 × 5 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (15.2 × 14 × 12.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Friends of the Artist
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 50:1924

NOTES

The naturalism of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century French heroine and Catholic saint, is striking. She turns her head momentarily, her attention seemingly held rapt by something—perhaps a voice—to her left.

Robert Porter Bringhurst taught in St. Louis at the School of Fine Arts (now Washington University) from 1885–1893. Several of his works can still be seen in the city, including a large bronze figure of President Ulysses S. Grant that stands near City Hall on the corner of Market and Tucker Streets.

Provenance

- 1924
Robert P. Bringhurst (1855–1925), St. Louis, MO

1924
Friends of the artist, purchased from the artist [1]

1924 –
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of friends of the artist [2]

Notes:
[1] Letter dated April 21, 1924, asks for donations to fund purchase from the artist [SLAM document files].

[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, May 16, 1924.

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