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Joan of Arc and the Furies
Joan of Arc and the Furies
Object number1966.12

Joan of Arc and the Furies

DateNd
Artist (English, 1751-1801)
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 38 1/8 x 29 x 2 5/8 in. (96.84 x 73.66 x 6.67 cm)
Unframed: 31 1/8 x 21 7/8 in. (79.06 x 55.56 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Betsy Mudge Wilson, class of 1956, Memorial Fund
On View
Not on view
Period18th c
Classification(s)
SignedNot signed
MarkingsVerso of stretcher, top: paper label reading: 6915/ 7H[?]
ProvenanceJosiah Boydell; sale (Christie’s London) “Sale of Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery” May 17, 1805, no. 29; purchased Dr. Westrop; with Durlacher Brothers, New York, 1965 (as Henry Tresham); purchased in 1966 by VC Art Gallery with the Betsy Mudge Wilson Memorial Fund
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women," January 27-March 15, 2000;


London, Boydell’s Shakespeare Garden, 1795-1805;
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, “Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings, 1760-1860,” January 9 - February 18, 1968 (travelled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 14 - April 21, 1968);
Santa Barbara, University Art Galleries, University of California, “William Blake in the Art of His Time,” February 24 - March 28, 1976;
Stratford, Ontario, The Gallery/Stratford, “Fantastic Shakespeare,” June 5 - July 23, 1978;
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, A Brush with Shakespeare,” November 4, 1985 - June 14, 1986 (including the following venues: New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Chicago Public Library Culturual Center);
Tokyo, Shakespeare in Western Art, Isetan Museum of Art (The Tokyo Shimbun) October 29 - November 24, 1992;
Ibaraki, The Museum of Modern Art, November 28 - December 23, 1992; Kintetsu Nara hall, January 9 - February 8, 1993; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, February 19 - March 28, 1993;
Northhampton, MA Smith College Museum of Art, June 20, 1991 - May 6, 1993;
Poughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Modeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women."
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email loebcollections@vassar.edu