Joan of Arc

Prints and Drawings

1898

Jan Toorop
Dutch, 1858–1928

Imbued with the sinuous linear style of Toorop’s most celebrated works, this small drawing merges medieval subject matter with the graphic language of Symbolism. Cleverly situated within the voids of a capital letter E, Toorop’s title figure recalls the conventions of medieval manuscript illumination. Indeed, like many of Toorop’s drawings, this work was likely intended for inclusion in a book. The swirling parallel lines in the saint’s hair and the intensity of her downcast posture assert the sympathetic interpretation Toorop offered of this warrior saint, whose canonization was not finalized until 1920.

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Artist: Jan Toorop
Title: Joan of Arc
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1898
Medium: Graphite and colored pencils on tan wove board
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, pen and black ink: "J. K. TOOROP"; dated, lower left, in pen and black ink: "1898"; inscribed recto, lower center, in graphite: "IEANNE D’ARC"
Dimensions: Sheet: 15.8 × 11.7 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/8 in.); Mount: 22.9 × 18.7 cm (9 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1035
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Wendingen 1 (December 1918): 41 (illus.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 140, cat. 99 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 140, cat. 99 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collectio” Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Architect Hendrik T. Wijdeveld (1885-1987), Amsterdam; by descent; sold, Christie’s, Amsterdam, June 3, 2003, lot 239, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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