This brooding architecture has a blood-brotherhood with the meditating, saint-seeing Jeanne d'Arc.
There is in the Metropolitan Museum a large and famous canvas painted by the dying Bastien-Lepage;--Jeanne Listening to the Voices.

It is a picture of which the technicians and the poets are equally enamored.

The tale of Jeanne d'Arc could be told, carrying this particular peasant girl through the story.

And for a piece of architectural pageantry akin to the photoplay ballroom scene already described, yet far above it, there is nothing more apt for our purpose than the painting by Boutet de Monvel filling the space at the top of the stair at the Chicago Art Institute.
Though the Bastien-Lepage is a large painting, this is many times the size.

It shows Joan's visit at the court of Chinon.