The image of Joan of Arc – “The Maid of Orleans”, the national heroine of France in the Hundred Years War. became very symbolic in France in the 1870s and
Rural love by Jules Bastien-Lepage
The painting “Village Love”, one of the best works of Bastien-Lepage, was acquired in Paris by Sergei Mikhailovich Tretyakov. brother of the founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, and bequeathed to